Nitrate uptake dynamics of surface transient storage in stream channels and fluvial wetlands

Biogeochemistry

Volumn 120, Issue 1-3, 2014, Pages 239-257

  Wollheim, W M ^a   Harms, T K ^b   Peterson, B J ^c   Morkeski, K ^c   Hopkinson, C S ^d   Stewart, R J ^a   Gooseff, M N ^e   Briggs, M A ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^e Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^f U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Denitrification; Efficiency loss; Fluvial wetlands; Nitrogen cycling; River network; Transient storage zones

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904822461     PISSN: 01682563     EISSN: 1573515X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10533-014-9993-y     Document Type: Article

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