Seasonal variations in surface water chemistry at disturbed and pristine peatland sites in the Flow Country of northern Scotland

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 435-436, Issue , 2012, Pages 351-362

  Muller, François L L ^a   Tankéré Muller, Sophie P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dissolved organic carbon; Metals; Peat catchment; Plantation forestry; Seasonality; Tree felling

Indexed keywords

BUFFER ZONES; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CONTROL SITES; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; GROUND SURFACES; MINERAL SOILS; MOBILISATION; PEATLAND SITES; PLANTATION FORESTRY; SCOTLAND; SEASONAL EFFECTS; SEASONAL FACTORS; SEASONAL PATTERNS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; STREAM WATER; SUB-CATCHMENT; SURFACE RUNOFFS; SURFACE-WATER CHEMISTRY; TOTAL VARIANCE; TREE FELLING;

ALUMINUM; CATCHMENTS; HYDROCHEMISTRY; LEACHING; MANGANESE; MANGANESE REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); METALS; PEAT; RIVERS; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW; SURFACES; TIMBER; WETLANDS;

FORESTRY;

ALUMINUM; MANGANESE; ORGANIC CARBON;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROCHEMISTRY; PEATLAND; PLANTATION FORESTRY; RUNOFF; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; STREAMWATER; SURFACE WATER;

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LEACHING; PLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; SURFACE WATER HYDROLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER FLOW; WATER QUALITY; WINTER;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTRY; FRESH WATER; METALS; SCOTLAND; SEASONS; SOIL; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION;

CHEMISTRY; FORESTRY; LEACHING; PEAT; PLANTATIONS; RUNOFF; SCOTLAND; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOFTWOODS; SURFACE WATER; WATER TREATMENT; WETLANDS;

FLOW COUNTRY; HIGHLAND; SCOTLAND; THURSO RIVER; UNITED KINGDOM;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 84864463528     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.06.048     Document Type: Article

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