Online stable isotope analysis of dissolved organic carbon size classes using size exclusion chromatography coupled to an isotope ratio mass spectrometer

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 10123-10129

  Malik, Ashish ^a   Scheibe, Andrea ^a   Lokabharathi, P A ^b   Gleixner, Gerd ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C ANALYSIS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ISOTOPE RATIO MASS SPECTROMETER; ISOTOPE RATIO MASS SPECTROMETRY; ISOTOPIC EFFECTS; LIMIT OF QUANTIFICATIONS; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT; METHODOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS; PLANT MATERIAL; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SAMPLE PRETREATMENT; SIZE CLASS; SIZE FRACTION; SOIL WATER; STABLE-ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; VEGETATION CHANGE;

CHROMATOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SOILS; SPECTROMETERS; STREAM FLOW; VEGETATION;

ISOTOPES;

ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC COMPOUND; STABLE ISOTOPE; WATER;

CHROMATOGRAPHY; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SAMPLING; SOIL WATER; STABLE ISOTOPE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; ISOTOPE RATIO MASS SPECTROMETRY; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOIL;

CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; FRESH WATER; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEAWATER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOIL; WATER;

EID: 84866396342     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es302467y     Document Type: Article

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