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The objectives of this article are to:
- describe denitrification and the factors known to affect its rate,
- present current methods available for the measurement of denitrification rate,
- summarize available estimates of denitrification rate, and
- attempt to provide guidelines on how to account for potential denitrification losses in fertilizer programs.
This 11-page fact sheet is a minor revision written by Eric H. Simonne, Guodong Liu, and Benjamin Morgant, and published by the Horticultural Sciences Department, August 2019.
HS1004/HS248: Denitrification in Seepage-Irrigated Vegetable Fields in South Florida (ufl.edu)
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