Using chemical, microbial and fluorescence techniques to understand contaminant sources and pathways to wetlands in a conservation site

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 511, Issue , 2015, Pages 703-710

  Rhymes, J ^a   Jones, L ^b   Lapworth, D J ^c   White, D ^c   Fenner, N ^a   McDonald, J E ^a   Perkins, T L ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dissolved organic matter fluorescence; Dune slacks; Ecosystem service; Faecal indicator bacteria; Groundwater; Sand dunes; Water chemistry

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; AMINO ACIDS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CONTAMINATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROCHEMISTRY; IMPURITIES; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; LANDFORMS; NUTRIENTS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SAND; SOLVENTS; WATER POLLUTION; WETLANDS;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTERS; DUNE SLACKS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; FAECAL INDICATOR BACTERIA; SAND DUNES; WATER CHEMISTRY;

RIVER POLLUTION;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; FERTILIZER; GROUND WATER; NITRATE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHATE; TRYPTOPHAN; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; WATER POLLUTANT;

CHEMICAL METHOD; DUNE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FECAL COLIFORM; FLUORESCENCE; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; NUTRIENT; POLLUTANT SOURCE; RIVER POLLUTION; STREAMWATER; WETLAND;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FILTRATION; FLUORESCENCE; GRAZER; INORGANIC CHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; SAND; STREAM (RIVER); WATER CONTAMINATION; WETLAND; AGRICULTURE; ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; WATER POLLUTANT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; GROUNDWATER; NITRATES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS; WETLANDS;

EID: 84921518895     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.12.085     Document Type: Article

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