Climatic warming and overgrazing induced the high concentration of organic matter in Lake Hulun, a large shallow eutrophic steppe lake in northern China

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 431, Issue , 2012, Pages 332-338

  Chen, Xiaofeng ^a   Chuai, Xiaoming ^a   Yang, Liuyan ^a   Zhao, Huiying ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Meteorological Bureau of Hulun Buir City   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Lake Hulun; Organic matter; Overgrazing; Source identification

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC WARMING; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTERS; EUTROPHIC LAKES; EXCITATION EMISSION MATRICES; FIELD INVESTIGATION; FLUORESCENCE INDICES; FLUORESCENCE INTENSITIES; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY TECHNIQUES; GRASSLAND ECOSYSTEMS; HIGH CONCENTRATION; LINEAR CORRELATION; NATURAL ABUNDANCE; NORTHERN CHINA; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS; OVERGRAZING; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTERS; SOURCE IDENTIFICATION; SPECIFIC LOCATION; STABLE CARBON ISOTOPES; STABLE ISOTOPES;

ALGAE; AMINO ACIDS; BIODEGRADATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEBRIS; EUTROPHICATION; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; ISOTOPES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

LAKES;

CARBON; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEGRADATION; EUTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LAKE WATER; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; ORGANIC MATTER; OVERGRAZING; STABLE ISOTOPE; WARMING;

ALGA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CARBON NITROGEN RATIO; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; LAKE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; WARMING;

CHINA; HULUN BUIR DESERT; HULUN LAKE; NEI MONGGOL;

ALGAE; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 84862182518     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.05.052     Document Type: Article

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