Reconnecting tile drainage to riparian buffer hydrology for enhanced nitrate removal

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 631-638

  Jaynes, D B ^a   Isenhart, T M ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; PLANTS (BOTANY);

DRAINAGE PIPES; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; MICROBIAL IMMOBILIZATION; NITRATE REMOVAL; PERFORATED PIPES; RIPARIAN BUFFERS; SHALLOW GROUNDWATER; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

CULTIVATION;

BUFFER; GROUND WATER; NITRATE; ORGANIC CARBON; SURFACE WATER;

ARTICLE; CLAY; DENITRIFICATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW RATE; HYDROLOGY; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; SAND; SOIL TEXTURE; TUBE; UNITED STATES; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WATER FLOW; WATER TABLE; WEATHER;

EID: 84895893253     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: 15372537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2013.08.0331     Document Type: Article

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