Effects of land-use patterns on in-stream nitrogen in a highly-polluted river basin in Northeast China

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 553, Issue , 2016, Pages 232-242

  Bu, Hongmei ^a   Zhang, Yuan ^b   Meng, Wei ^b   Song, Xianfang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Isotope mixing models; Land use; Landscape metrics; Nitrate isotopes; Nitrogen pollution; Nitrogen source contributions

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; ISOTOPES; LAND USE; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; MIXING; NITRATES; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; POLLUTION; RIVERS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEWAGE; WATERSHEDS;

LANDSCAPE METRICS; MIXING MODELS; NITRATE ISOTOPES; NITROGEN POLLUTION; NITROGEN SOURCES;

RIVER POLLUTION;

FERTILIZER; ISOTOPE; NITRATE; NITROGEN; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; MODELING; NITRATE; NITROGEN; POLLUTANT SOURCE; RIVER BASIN; RIVER POLLUTION; STREAM; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; MANURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEWAGE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; AGRICULTURE; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; URBANIZATION; WATER POLLUTANT;

CHINA; HAICHENG; LIAONING;

AGRICULTURE; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FERTILIZERS; NITROGEN; RIVERS; URBANIZATION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84959087373     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.02.104     Document Type: Article

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