Long-term monitoring of nitrogen in surface and subsurface runoff from small agricultural dominated catchments in Norway

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 198, Issue , 2014, Pages 13-24

  Bechmann, Marianne ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Concentration; Field scale; Loss; Nitrogen application

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRAINAGE NETWORK; FORESTED CATCHMENT; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NITROGEN; RUNOFF; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

NORWAY;

EID: 85027947048     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2014.05.010     Document Type: Article

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