Stable carbon isotope analysis of fluvial sediment fluxes over two contrasting C4-C3 semi-arid vegetation transitions

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 26, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 2386-2392

  Puttock, Alan ^a   Dungait, Jennifer A J ^b   Bol, Roland ^b,c   Dixon, Elizabeth R ^b   Macleod, Christopher J A ^d   Brazier, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ECOSYSTEMS; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEDIMENTS;

C VALUES; CARBON ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; DRY LAND; FLUVIAL SEDIMENT; SEDIMENT FLUX; SEMI ARID; STABLE CARBON ISOTOPES; STABLE-ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; WOODY VEGETATION;

VEGETATION;

EID: 84866403099     PISSN: 09514198     EISSN: 10970231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rcm.6257     Document Type: Article

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