Denitrification potentials in soils underlying a riparian forest and an agricultural field in the coastal plain of Virginia

While research has shown that riparian forests are effective in reducing shallow groundwater nitrogen levels, the relative importance of the mechanisms responsible for this reduction have not been adequately addressed. This project focused on the microbial mediated process denitrification, which has...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smedley, Scott Brian
Other Authors: Biology
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40729
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-01242009-063055/