Land management as a factor controlling dissolved organic carbon release from upland peat soils 2: Changes in DOC productivity over four decades

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 6179-6191

  Clutterbuck, B ^a   Yallop, A R ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dissolved organic carbon (DOC); Heather burning; Land management; Peat decomposition; Uplands; Water colour

Indexed keywords

BLANKET PEAT; CARBON BUDGETS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DRAINAGE WATER; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; FIRE MANAGEMENT; HEATHER BURNING; LAND MANAGEMENTS; PEAT SOILS; RAPID EXPANSION; SCALE FACTOR; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SULPHATES; SULPHUR DEPOSITION; UPLAND CATCHMENT; UPLANDS;

CATCHMENTS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISSOLUTION; ECOSYSTEMS; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; MANAGEMENT; ORGANIC CARBON; PEAT; RUNOFF; SOILS; STREAM FLOW; SULFUR; WASTEWATER DISPOSAL;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ORGANIC CARBON; RAIN; SULFATE; SURFACE WATER;

CARBON BUDGET; CARBON EMISSION; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLOR; DEPOSITION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; LAND MANAGEMENT; PEAT SOIL; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SULFATE; UPLAND REGION; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FIRE; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; LAND USE; PEATLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL MANAGEMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

CARBON; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

UNITED KINGDOM;

CALLUNA;

EID: 77958097352     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.08.038     Document Type: Article

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