Comprehensive nitrogen budgets for controlled tile drainage fields in eastern Ontario, Canada

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 617-630

  Sunohara, M D ^a   Craiovan, E ^a   Topp, E ^b   Gottschall, N ^a   Drury, C F ^c   Lapen, D R ^a  

^a OTTAWA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^c HARROW RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CATCHMENTS; CULTIVATION; GROUNDWATER; NITROGEN FIXATION; SEEPAGE;

AGRICULTURAL FIELDS; CONTROLLED TILE DRAINAGES; CORN (ZEA MAYS L.); GROUNDWATER SEEPAGE; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; SOYBEAN [GLYCINE MAX (L.) MERR.]; SUBSURFACE TILE DRAINAGE; WATER QUALITY DEGRADATION;

LOADING;

GROUND WATER; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED TILE DRAINAGE; GRAIN YIELD; MAIZE; PREDICTION; SOYBEAN; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84895859015     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: 15372537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2013.04.0117     Document Type: Article

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