Indirect nitrous oxide emissions from streams within the US Corn Belt scale with stream order

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 32, 2015, Pages 9839-9843

  Turner, Peter A ^a   Griffis, Timothy J ^a   Lee, Xuhui ^b,c   Baker, John M ^a,d   Venterea, Rodney T ^a,d   Wood, Jeffrey D ^a   Del Grosso, Stephen J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Plant Science Research Unit   (United States)

^e U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic nitrous oxide fluxes; IPCC emission factors; Regional emission upscaling; River emission hotspots

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; GROUND WATER; NITRATE; NITROGEN; NITROUS OXIDE; NITROUS OXIDE REDUCTASE;

AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP; DENITRIFICATION; NITROUS OXIDE EMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALE UP; STREAM (RIVER); UNITED STATES; WATERSHED;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84938945372     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1503598112     Document Type: Article

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