Managing Groundwater Nitrate Contamination from Livestock Farms: Implication for Nitrate Management Guidelines

Current Pollution Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 178-187

  Sahoo, Prafulla Kumar ^a,b   Kim, Kangjoo ^b   Powell, M A ^c  

^a INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO VALE   (Brazil)

^b Kunsan National University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Groundwater; Livestock; Management guidelines; Nitrate contamination

Indexed keywords

EID: 85051695018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21986592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40726-016-0033-5     Document Type: Review

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