A stable isotope approach and its application for identifying nitrate source and transformation process in water

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 1133-1148

  Xu, Shiguo ^a   Kang, Pingping ^a   Sun, Ya ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Isotope mixing models; N transformation processes; Nitrate sources; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; NITRATE; NITROGEN; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT SOURCE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRANSFORMATION; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER POLLUTION;

NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; WATER POLLUTANT;

CHEMISTRY; DENITRIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NITRIFICATION; WATER POLLUTANT;

DENITRIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NITRATES; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84954401580     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-015-5309-6     Document Type: Article

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