Alternative explanations for rising dissolved organic carbon export from organic soils

Global Change Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2044-2053

  Evans, Christopher D ^a   Chapman, Pippa J ^b   Clark, Joanna M ^b   Monteith, Don T ^c   Cresser, Malcolm S ^d  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acidification; Climate change; CO2; Dissolved organic carbon; Sulphate

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC SOIL; OXIC CONDITIONS; SEA SALT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SULFUR EMISSION; SURFACE WATER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33749818762     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01241.x     Document Type: Article

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