Journal of Horticulture
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Aitkenhead-Peterson JA

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• Research Article
  Effect of Sodic Irrigation Water on Organic Carbon and Nitrogen Concentrations, Fluxes and Exports from Newly Installed St. Augustine Grass Sod in South-Central Texas
  Author(s): Aitkenhead-Peterson JA*, Fontanier CH, Thomas JC, Wherley BG, McInnes K and White RH Aitkenhead-Peterson JA*, Fontanier CH, Thomas JC, Wherley BG, McInnes K and White RH
  
  Population growth in towns and cities requires new construction of homes and conversion of native land use to urban and suburban landscapes. Municipal tap water is generally used for irrigating these urban and suburban landscapes and its water quality can differ globally dependent on whether it is sourced from ground or surface waters. We examined runoff dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and organic nitrogen (DON) concentrations, fluxes and exports from newly installed, fertilized and unfertilized St. Augustine (Stenotaphrum secundatum (Walt.) Kuntze ‘Raleigh’) sod irrigated with a sodic municipal tap water during two 5-week establishment periods (August and September). In unfertilized plots, concentrations of DOC in runoff significantly increased from 20.5 to 73.7 mg L-1 and from 29.6 to 113.3 mg L-1 Runoff concentrations of DOC in fertilized plots significantly inc.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2376-0354.1000235

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