Export of dissolved organic matter in relation to land use along a European climatic gradient

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1967-1976

  Mattsson, Tuija ^a   Kortelainen, Pirkko ^a   Laubel, Anker ^b   Evans, Dylan ^c   Pujo Pay, Mireille ^d   Räike, Antti ^a   Conan, Pascal ^d  

^a FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b Department of the Coastal Environment Vejle County ^*  (Denmark)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Laboratoire d Océanographie Microbienne   (France)

Author keywords

DOM export; Land use; Organic carbon; Organic nitrogen; Organic phosphorus; Rivers

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL AREAS; AGRICULTURAL LANDS; CLIMATIC VARIABILITIES; DATA SETS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBONS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTERS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGENS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC PHOSPHORUS; DOM EXPORT; FOREST COVERS; HIGH POPULATION DENSITIES; HUMAN IMPACTS; HUMAN INTERFERENCES; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS; MEDITERRANEAN CATCHMENTS; MOUNTAIN REGIONS; ORGANIC NITROGEN; ORGANIC PHOSPHORUS; RIVERS; STUDY AREAS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; URBAN AREAS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CLIMATOLOGY; DISSOLUTION; FIRE HAZARDS; LAND USE; NITROGEN; NONMETALS; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHOSPHORUS; RUNOFF;

CATCHMENTS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BOREAL FOREST; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; LAND USE; MOUNTAIN REGION; POPULATION DENSITY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVERS; SEASONS; SOLUBILITY; WATER MOVEMENTS;

DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; GULF OF LION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 60249091011     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.11.014     Document Type: Article

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