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Title (Primary) Diffuse and point inputs of nitrogen into the rivers of the central Mulde
Title (Secondary) Ecosystems and Sustainable Development III. 3rd International Conference on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development, "ECOSUD 2001", Alicante, 6-8 June 2001
Author Hirt, U.
Publisher Villacampa, Y.; Brebbia, C.A.; Uso, J.L.
Source Titel WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment
Year 2001
Department CLE
Volume 46
Page From 571
Page To 582
Abstract Continually high nitrogen inputs into the rivers and the North Sea led the International North Sea Protection Conference to pass a resolution in 1985 and 1987 demanding a 50 % reduction in the nitrogen inputs into the North Sea by 1995.

However, in the rivers of the Central Mulde (2700 km*) in the loess region of Germany no significant decline in nitrogen inputs was recorded in this period. If measures to reduce nitrogen inputs into the rivers are to be effective, the input pathways and input quantities have to be known. Nitrogen enters the rivers both via point (i.e. localisable) sources and via diffuse (i.e. areal) sources.
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Hirt, U. (2001):
Diffuse and point inputs of nitrogen into the rivers of the central Mulde
In: Villacampa, Y., Brebbia, C.A., Uso, J.L. (eds.)
Ecosystems and Sustainable Development III. 3rd International Conference on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development, "ECOSUD 2001", Alicante, 6-8 June 2001
WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment 46
WIT Press, Southampton, p. 571 - 582