Agricultural diffuse nutrient pollution transport in a mountain wetland complex

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 224, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Caruso, Brian S ^a   O'Sullivan, Aisling D ^a   Faulkner, Summer ^a   Sherratt, Michaela ^a   Clucas, Rosemary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Mountains .Wetlands; New Zealand; Nutrients; Pollutant transport

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883459239     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-013-1695-x     Document Type: Article

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