Temporal and spatial variability, and the role of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in methane fluxes from the Sabine River Floodplain (Southeast Texas, U.S.A.)

Archiv fur Hydrobiologie

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 261-287

  Bianchi, Thomas S ^a   Freer, Michael E ^b   Wetzel, Robert G ^c  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAMAR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

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