Continuous In-Stream Assimilatory Nitrate Uptake from High-Frequency Sensor Measurements

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 5685-5694

  Rode, Michael ^a   Halbedel Née Angelstein, Susanne ^a,b   Anis, Muhammad Rehan ^a   Borchardt, Dietrich ^a   Weitere, Markus ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; METABOLISM;

AGRICULTURAL STREAMS; HIGH FREQUENCY SENSORS; HIGH TEMPORAL FREQUENCY; MINERALIZATION PROCESS; MULTI-PARAMETER SENSOR; NITRATE CONCENTRATION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; STRONG CORRELATION;

NITRATES;

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; MINERALIZATION; NITRATE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SENSOR; STREAMWATER;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FOREST; METABOLIC RATE; NITRATE UPTAKE; NITROGEN CONCENTRATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGEN MINERALIZATION; PERIPHYTON; SENSOR; WATER TEMPERATURE; WATERSHED; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; GERMANY; RIVER; WATER POLLUTANT;

BODE RIVER; GERMANY; SAXONY-ANHALT;

NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NITROGEN;

AGRICULTURE; FORESTS; GERMANY; NITRATES; NITROGEN; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84973636341     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b00943     Document Type: Article

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