Evaluating the source of streamwater nit
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Linda H. Pardo; Carol Kendall; Jennifer Pett-Ridge; Cecily C. Y. Chang
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Article
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2004
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract The natural abundance of nitrogen and oxygen isotopes in nitrate can be a powerful tool for identifying the source of nitrate in streamwater in forested watersheds, because the two main sources of nitrate, atmospheric deposition and microbial nitrification, have distinct ฮด^18^O values.