Towards closing the watershed nitrogen budget: Spatial and temporal scaling of denitrification

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1105-1119

  Duncan, Jonathan M ^a   Groffman, Peter M ^b   Band, Lawrence E ^a,c  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

denitrification; hydrology; nitrogen cycling; riparian; scaling; watershed

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; DENITRIFICATION; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; NITROGEN; RAINFALL; RIPARIAN ZONE; SCALE EFFECT; SOIL GAS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL SURFACE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATERSHED;

MARYLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84886714961     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrg.20090     Document Type: Article

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