Processes controlling DOC in pore water during simulated drought cycles in six different UK peats

Biogeochemistry

Volumn 109, Issue 1-3, 2012, Pages 253-270

  Clark, J M ^a,b,c   Heinemeyer, A ^d   Martin, P ^d,e   Bottrell, S H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dissolved organic carbon; DOC; Drought; Episodic acidification; Peat; Sulphate

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; ANION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DROUGHT STRESS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXIC CONDITIONS; PEATLAND; POREWATER; REDOX POTENTIAL; SOIL BIOTA; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL RESPIRATION; SULFATE; SULFUR;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84860165485     PISSN: 01682563     EISSN: 1573515X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10533-011-9624-9     Document Type: Article

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