The role of the unsaturated zone in determining nitrate leaching to groundwater

Groundwater Quality Sustainability

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3-16

  Matrocicco, Micòl ^a,b   Colombani, Nicolò ^a,b   Salemi, Enzo ^a   Vincenzi, Fabio ^a   Castaldelli, Giuseppe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b HTN Emilia Romagna   (Italy)

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