Intensive rice agriculture deteriorates the quality of shallow groundwater in a typical agricultural catchment in subtropical central China

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 22, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 13278-13290

  Wang, Yi ^a   Li, Yuyuan ^a   Li, Yong ^a   Liu, Feng ^a   Liu, Xinliang ^a   Gong, Dianlin ^a,b   Ma, Qiumei ^a,b   Li, Wei ^c   Wu, Jinshui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Changsha Municipal Meteorological Bureau   (China)

Author keywords

Ammonium; Catchment; Fertilizer; Nitrate; Water quality

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENT; AMMONIUM NITRATE; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; LAND USE CHANGE; LEACHING; NITROGEN; RICE; SHALLOW WATER; SUBTROPICAL REGION; WATER QUALITY;

CHINA;

AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; FERTILIZER; GROUND WATER; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SOIL; WATER POLLUTANT;

AGRICULTURE; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ORYZA; PROCEDURES; SOIL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TROPIC CLIMATE; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

AGRICULTURE; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FERTILIZERS; GROUNDWATER; NITRATES; ORYZA; SOIL; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84940446808     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-015-4519-2     Document Type: Article

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