Tracking Nitrogen Sources, Transformation, and Transport at a Basin Scale with Complex Plain River Networks

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 5396-5403

  Yi, Qitao ^b,c   Chen, Qiuwen ^a,b   Hu, Liuming ^a   Shi, Wenqing ^a  

^a NANJING HYDRAULIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c ANHUI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; EUTROPHICATION; LAKE POLLUTION; LAKES; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; NITRATES; NITROGEN; POLLUTION; RIVER POLLUTION; TRANSPORTATION ROUTES;

AMMONIUM CONCENTRATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; COMPLEX RIVER NETWORK; INNOVATIVE APPROACHES; PLAIN RIVER NETWORKS; POINT AND NONPOINT SOURCES; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; URBANIZATION LEVELS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

AMMONIA; FERTILIZER; NITRATE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN 15; OXYGEN; OXYGEN 18; STABLE ISOTOPE; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

AMMONIUM; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); INNOVATION; LAKE; NITRATE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN CYCLE; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POINT SOURCE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRACKING; URBANIZATION;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; AUTUMN; DENITRIFICATION; EUTROPHICATION; HYDROLOGY; LAKE; LAND USE; MANURE; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CONCENTRATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; RIVER BASIN; SEWAGE; SOIL; SPRING; SUMMER; URBANIZATION; WATER QUALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; RIVER; WATER POLLUTANT;

CHINA; TAIHU BASIN;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FERTILIZERS; NITRATES; NITROGEN; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 85020862408     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b06278     Document Type: Article

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