Land management as a factor controlling dissolved organic carbon release from upland peat soils 1: Spatial variation in DOC productivity

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3803-3813

  Yallop, A R ^a   Clutterbuck, B ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calluna; Dissolved organic carbon; DOC; Hazen; Heather burning; Land management; Peat decomposition; Uplands; Water colour

Indexed keywords

CALLUNA; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DOC; HAZEN; HEATHER BURNING; LAND MANAGEMENT; UPLANDS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); COLOR; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISSOLUTION; FEEDBACK; FIRE HAZARDS; GLOBAL WARMING; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; ORGANIC CARBON; PEAT; RUNOFF; SOILS; STREAM FLOW;

CATCHMENTS;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; ORGANIC CARBON; PEAT;

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; CATCHMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); INFORMATION PROCESSING; LAND USE; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL; SOIL MANAGEMENT; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER TREATMENT;

CARBON; CITY PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIRES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; RAIN; SEASONS; SOIL; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH YORK MOORS; NORTH YORKSHIRE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

CALLUNA;

EID: 65049087436     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.03.012     Document Type: Article

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