Coarse particulate organic matter in the interstitial zone of three French headwater streams

Annales de Limnologie

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 303-313

  Cornut, Julien ^a,b   Elger, Arnaud ^a,b   Greugny, Axel ^a,b   Bonnet, Maelys ^a,b   Chauvet, Eric ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b Institut National Polytechnique   (France)

Author keywords

Headwater stream; Hyporheic zone; Litter breakdown; Organic matter; River sediment

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; INTERSTITIAL ENVIRONMENT; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; STREAM; STREAM BED; WOODLAND;

FRANCE;

EID: 84864272748     PISSN: 00034088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/limn/2012019     Document Type: Article

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