Event controlled DOC export from forested watersheds

Biogeochemistry

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 197-209

  Raymond, Peter A ^a   Saiers, James E ^a  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; DOC; DOM; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHON; ANTECEDENT CONDITIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISCHARGE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; FLUX MEASUREMENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HYDROGRAPH; META-ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SEASONALITY; SNOWMELT; STORM; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIMESCALE; WATERSHED; WETLAND;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956296139     PISSN: 01682563     EISSN: 1573515X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10533-010-9416-7     Document Type: Article

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