Nitrate: Processes, Patterns and ManagementTim Burt, A. L. Heathwaite, Stephen T. Trudgill Commences with detailed accounts of nitrogen cycles and nitrate production in atmospheric, terrestrial and aquatic systems. Using a geographical perspective and stressing the fundamental importance of the drainage basin as the primary unit for water quality control, the second section deals with nitrate transport patterns. Lastly, it considers various strategies for nitrate pollution including legislative, land use and water treatment options. |
Contents
Overview | 17 |
Nitrogen and Nitrogen Compounds in the Atmosphere | 25 |
Nitrogen Cycling in Agricultural Soils | 69 |
Copyright | |
19 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
acid Addiscott agricultural practice ammonia ammonium aquifer arable atmospheric autumn basin biological borehole Burt carbon catchment Chapter coastal concentrations of nitrate crop denitrification discharge drain drainage ecosystems ecotone effect environment environmental estuary eutrophication farming fertiliser fertiliser application Figure floodplain flow flux forest soils freshwaters grassland grazed groundwater Heathwaite hydrological important increase inorganic inputs kg N ha¹ lake land leaching losses limit lysimeters Management manure marine microbial mineralisation National Rivers Authority nitrate concentrations nitrate leaching nitrate levels nitrate loss nitrate pollution nitrate removal nitrification nitrogen cycle nitrogen fertiliser Nitrogen fixation nitrogen load nutrient organic matter organic nitrogen oxide oxygen ozone phosphorus phytoplankton plant Powlson processes production rainfall rates reduce result riparian River Windrush runoff sampling seasonal sediments sewage Slapton Ley slurry solute sources spatial stomach cancer stream studies surface waters trends Trudgill unsaturated zone uptake variation water quality water supply water table wetland Windrush winter