Organic and inorganic carbon concentrations and fluxes from managed and unmanaged boreal first-order catchments

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1649-1658

  Rantakari, Miitta ^a   Mattsson, Tuija ^a   Kortelainen, Pirkko ^a   Piirainen, Sirpa ^b   Finér, Leena ^b   Ahtiainen, Marketta ^c  

^a FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c Finland's Environmental Administration   (Finland)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Climate change; Dissolved inorganic carbon; Dissolved organic carbon; Peatland drainage; Streams

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; MINERALS; ORGANIC CARBON; RUNOFF; SNOW; SOILS; WETLANDS;

DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; PARTIAL PRESSURE OF CO; PEATLAND; STREAMS; TOC CONCENTRATIONS; TOTAL INORGANIC CARBON; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

CATCHMENTS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; INORGANIC CARBON; INORGANIC COMPOUND; ORGANIC CARBON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARBON; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; PEATLAND; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOW COVER; STREAMWATER; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CARBON DYNAMICS; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL RELEASE; FINLAND; PEATLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; TOTAL INORGANIC CARBON; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; CHEMISTRY; SEASON;

CARBON; FINLAND; INORGANIC CHEMICALS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SEASONS;

EID: 77952960659     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.12.025     Document Type: Article

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