Quantifying nitrogen leaching from diffuse agricultural and forest sources in a large heterogeneous catchment

Biogeochemistry

Volumn 115, Issue 1-3, 2013, Pages 149-165

  Kopáček, Jiří ^a   Hejzlar, Josef ^a   Posch, Maximilian ^b  

^a Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic   (Czech Republic)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agricultural land; Forest; Mass budgets; Modelling; Reactive nitrogen

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CATCHMENT; DRAINAGE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FOREST COVER; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAND USE CHANGE; LEACHING; MINERALIZATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; RESIDENCE TIME; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TILLAGE; WATERLOGGING;

CZECH REPUBLIC; VLTAVA BASIN;

EID: 84884901375     PISSN: 01682563     EISSN: 1573515X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10533-013-9825-5     Document Type: Article

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