Landscape-scale variability of acidity and dissolved organic carbon during spring flood in a boreal stream network

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Buffam, Ishi ^a   Laudon, Hjalmar ^a,b   Temnerud, Johan ^a,c   Mörth, Carl Magnus ^d   Bishop, Kevin ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDITY; BASEFLOW; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; FLOOD; HYDROCHEMISTRY; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 34249804773     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JG000218     Document Type: Article

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