Amazonian biomass burning-derived acid and nutrient deposition in the north Andean montane forest of Ecuador

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Boy, Jens ^a   Rollenbeck, Rütger ^b   Valarezo, Carlos ^c   Wilcke, Wolfgang ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LOJA   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID DEPOSITIONS; AEROSOL EMISSIONS; AMAZON BASINS; AMAZONIA; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; BASE METALS; BIOMASS-BURNING; ECUADOR; ELEMENT DEPOSITIONS; LATIN AMERICA; MICROCATCHMENTS; MONTANE FORESTS; SOUTHERN OSCILLATIONS;

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; CALCIUM; GLOBAL WARMING; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; ZINC;

DEPOSITION;

ACID DEPOSITION; AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOMASS BURNING; CATCHMENT; EL NINO; MONTANE FOREST; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AMAZONIA; LATIN AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 58749102251     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GB003158     Document Type: Article

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