Nitrogen content and trends in agricultural catchments in Estonia

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 198, Issue , 2014, Pages 44-53

  Iital, Arvo ^a   Klõga, Marija ^a   Pihlak, Margus ^a   Pachel, Karin ^a   Zahharov, Andre ^b   Loigu, Enn ^a  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^b Estonian Environment Information Centre   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Diffuse loss; Mann Kendall test; Nitrogen; Trend

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISCHARGE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT LOSS; RUNOFF; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; WATER QUALITY;

ESTONIA;

EID: 85027929085     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2014.03.010     Document Type: Article

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