Toward a unified science of the Earth's surface: Opportunities for synthesis among hydrology, geomorphology, geochemistry, and ecology

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Paola, Chris ^a   Foufoula Georgiou, Efi ^a   Dietrich, William E ^b   Hondzo, Miki ^a   Mohrig, David ^c   Parker, Gary ^d   Power, Mary E ^b   Rodriguez Iturbe, Ignacio ^e   Voller, Vaughan ^a   Wilcock, Peter ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^e Princeton University   (United States)

^f The Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE; BIOTA; DIVERSE ENVIRONMENTS; EARTH SURFACE DYNAMICS;

HYDROLOGY;

ECOLOGY; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; SEDIMENTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

EARTH SCIENCE; ECOLOGY; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

EID: 33646516410     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004336     Document Type: Article

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