Does road salting induce or ameliorate DOC mobilisation from roadside soils to surface waters in the long term?

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 153, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 435-448

  Green, Sophie M ^a   Machin, Robert ^a   Cresser, Malcolm S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DOC concentration; Road salt; Sodium chloride; Upland river

Indexed keywords

ACID SOILS; COMPETING EFFECTS; DOC CONCENTRATION; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; LABILE ORGANIC MATTERS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LABORATORY SIMULATIONS; LONG TERMS; MOBILISATION; ORGANIC MATTER SOLUBILITIES; ORGANIC MATTERS; PH SUPPRESSIONS; POTENTIAL PROBLEMS; POTENTIAL RISKS; ROAD SALT; ROADSIDE SOILS; SALT ADDITIONS; SALTING-IN; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER CONTENTS; SOIL PH; SOIL SOLUTIONS; SOLUBILISATION; TEMPORAL TRENDS; UPLAND RIVER;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; LANDFORMS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PH EFFECTS; RIVERS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL POLLUTION CONTROL; SOLUBILITY;

ROADS AND STREETS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC MATTER; ORGANIC NITROGEN; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SURFACE WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; LABORATORY METHOD; MOBILIZATION; PH; RIVER; SOIL; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOLUBILITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSION; EXPOSURE; HYPOTHESIS; PH; RIVER; SOIL; SOIL ACIDITY; SOLUBILIZATION; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN AREA;

CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; GREAT BRITAIN; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 67349126928     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-008-0369-4     Document Type: Article

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