Assessing long-term water quality impacts of reducing phosphorus fertilizer in a US suburban watershed

Water Policy

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 917-929

  Qiu, Zeyuan ^a,b   Prato, Tony ^a,b   Wang, Hongmei ^c  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Lawn fertilizer ordinances; Load duration curve; Phosphorus run off; Soil and water assessment tool; Total maximum daily load

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920048934     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: 19969759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2014.163     Document Type: Article

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