Managing urban runoff in residential neighborhoods: Nitrogen and phosphorus in lawn irrigation driven runoff

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2017, Pages

  Toor, Gurpal S ^a,d   Occhipinti, Marti L ^a   Yang, Yun Ya ^a   Majcherek, Tammy ^b   Haver, Darren ^b   Oki, Lorence ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA COOPERATIVE EXTENSION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORUS; SURFACE WATER;

ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW RATE; FLOWMETER; LAWN IRRIGATION; NEIGHBORHOOD; NUTRIENT CONTENT; NUTRIENT LOADING; RUNOFF; SAMPLER; SURFACE AREA; TURFGRASS; URBAN AREA; WATER FLOW; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER TRANSPORT; CALIFORNIA; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GRASSLAND;

CALIFORNIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GRASSLAND; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 85020699807     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179151     Document Type: Article

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