Fluvial dynamics of dissolved and particulate organic carbon during periodic discharge events in a steep tropical rainforest catchment

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2282-2292

  Bass, Adrian M ^a   Bird, Michael I ^a   Liddell, Michael J ^a   Nelson, Paul N ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CARBON BUDGET; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISCHARGE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; EPISODIC EVENT; FLOODING; FORESTED CATCHMENT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MOBILIZATION; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; PERIODICITY; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; RAINFOREST; STREAMWATER; TROPICAL FOREST;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84857093630     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2011.56.6.2282     Document Type: Article

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