Carbon dioxide and methane emissions and the carbon budget of a 10-year old tropical reservoir (Petit Saut, French Guiana)

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Abril, Gwenaäel ^a   Guérin, Frédéric ^a,b   Richard, Sandrine ^c   Delmas, Robert ^b   Galy Lacaux, Corinne ^b   Gosse, Philippe ^d   Tremblay, Alain ^e   Varfalvy, Louis ^e   Dos Santos, Marco Aurelio ^f   Matvienko, Bohdan ^g  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Laboratoire Environnement   (France)

^d Recherche et Développement   (France)

^e HYDRO QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^f Centro de Tecnologia   (Brazil)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; DAMS; DEGASSING; ESTUARIES; GAS EMISSIONS; HYDRAULIC TURBINES; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; METHANE; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RIVERS; STREAM FLOW;

CARBON BUDGET; CARBON DIOXIDE; EMISSION; METHANE; RESERVOIR; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

FRENCH GUIANA; PETIT SAUT DAM; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 24344485989     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GB002457     Document Type: Article

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