Comparative study of dissolved organic matter from groundwater and surface water in the Florida coastal Everglades using multi-dimensional spectrofluorometry combined with multivariate statistics

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 872-880

  Chen, Meilian ^a   Price, René M ^a   Yamashita, Youhei ^a   Jaffé, Rudolf ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SURFACES; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DEGRADATION PATHWAYS; DEGRADATION PROCESS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTERS; EXCITATION EMISSION MATRICES; FLORIDA; FLORIDA BAY; MARINE SOURCES; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS; PARAFAC; PARALLEL FACTOR ANALYSIS; RAINY SEASONS; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; VERTICAL FLOWS;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; BIODEGRADATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; DISSOLUTION; GROUNDWATER; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHOTODEGRADATION; SURFACE WATERS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

BASIN ANALYSIS; BIODEGRADATION; CARBON CYCLE; COASTAL ZONE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; FACTOR ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PHOTODEGRADATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROTEIN;

EVERGLADES; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; FLORIDA BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954860245     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2010.03.005     Document Type: Article

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