Runoff sources and land cover change in the Amazon: An end-member mixing analysis from small watersheds

Biogeochemistry

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 7-18

  Neill, Christopher ^a   Chaves, Joaquin E ^a,i   Biggs, Trent ^b   Deegan, Linda A ^a   Elsenbeer, Helmut ^c   Figueiredo, Ricardo O ^d   Germer, Sonja ^c,j   Johnson, Mark S ^e   Lehmann, Johannes ^f   Markewitz, Daniel ^g   Piccolo, Marisa C ^h  

^a ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

ⁱ SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^j Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Cattle pasture; Deforestation; Flowpaths; Overland flow; Principal components analysis; Soil solution

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CATCHMENT; CATTLE; CLEARCUTTING; DEFORESTATION; EPHEMERAL STREAM; FLOW PATTERN; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HYDROMETRY; LAND COVER; MIXING; OVERLAND FLOW; PASTURE; RAINWATER; RUNOFF; SAMPLING; STREAMFLOW; STREAMWATER; SURFACE WATER; THROUGHFALL; WATERSHED;

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EID: 80052271570     PISSN: 01682563     EISSN: 1573515X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10533-011-9597-8     Document Type: Article

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