Extensive grasslands as an effective measure for nitrate and phosphate reduction from highly polluted subsurface flow – Case studies from Central Poland

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 203, Issue , 2018, Pages 240-250

  Izydorczyk, Katarzyna ^a   Michalska Hejduk, Dorota ^b   Jarosiewicz, Paweł ^a   Bydałek, Franciszek ^a   Frątczak, Wojciech ^a,c  

^a EUROPEAN REGIONAL CENTRE FOR ECOHYDROLOGY OF THE POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^c Regional Water Management Authority in Warsaw   (Poland)

Author keywords

Diffuse pollution; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Riparian buffer zone; Shallow groundwater; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLLUTION; BIODIVERSITY; CATCHMENTS; ECOSYSTEMS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; NITRATES; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; RIVER POLLUTION; VEGETATION;

% REDUCTIONS; AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES; BUFFER ZONES; CASE-STUDIES; DIFFUSE POLLUTION; EFFECTIVE MEASURES; RIPARIAN BUFFER ZONES; SHALLOW GROUNDWATER; SUBSURFACE FLOW; SUBSURFACE-FLOW;

NITROGEN;

BIODIVERSITY; BUFFER ZONE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOTONE; EUROPEAN UNION; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; NITROGEN; PHOSPHATE; SATURATION; SUBSURFACE FLOW; WATER POLLUTION;

POLAND [CENTRAL EUROPE];

EID: 85044118202     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: 18732283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2018.03.021     Document Type: Article

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