Assessment of the environmental fate of the herbicides flufenacet and metazachlor with the SWAT model

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 75-85

  Fohrer, Nicola ^a   Dietrich, Antje ^a   Kolychalow, Olga ^a   Ulrich, Uta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

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EID: 84894094267     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: 15372537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2011.0382     Document Type: Article

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