Climate variability masks the impacts of land use change on nutrient export in a suburbanizing watershed

Biogeochemistry

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 45-59

  Morse, Nathaniel B ^a   Wollheim, Wilfred M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic processing; Long term change; Nitrogen; Nutrient; Phosphorus; Seasonality; Suburbanization; Watershed

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; CLIMATE VARIATION; LAND USE CHANGE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NITROGEN CYCLE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHOSPHORUS; SEASONALITY; SUBURBANIZATION; WATERSHED;

IPSWICH BASIN; MASSACHUSETTS; PARKER BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84907604813     PISSN: 01682563     EISSN: 1573515X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10533-014-9998-6     Document Type: Article

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