Agriculture has changed the amount and composition of dissolved organic matter in Central European headwater streams

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 438, Issue , 2012, Pages 435-446

  Graeber, Daniel ^a   Gelbrecht, Jörg ^a   Pusch, Martin T ^a   Anlanger, Christine ^a,b   von Schiller, Daniel ^a,c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fluorescence; Forest; Parallel Factor Analysis; Redox state; Seasonality; Wetland

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENTS; AGRICULTURAL LAND USE; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTERS; FOREST; FORESTED CATCHMENTS; FRESH WATER; FRESHWATER SYSTEMS; GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE; HEADWATER STREAM; LAND-WATER INTERFACES; PARALLEL FACTOR ANALYSIS; REDOX STATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; ECOSYSTEMS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE; FORESTRY; LAND USE; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; RUNOFF; WATER; WETLANDS;

CATCHMENTS;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; FRESH WATER; RIVER WATER; SURFACE WATER;

AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENT; AGRICULTURE; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FLUORESCENCE; FORESTED CATCHMENT; HEADWATER; LAND USE; REDOX CONDITIONS; STREAMWATER; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; GERMANY; LAND USE; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; STREAM (RIVER); WATER SAMPLING; WETLAND;

AGRICULTURE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARBON; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; GERMANY; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; RIVERS; SEASONS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

GERMANY;

EID: 84866716311     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.08.087     Document Type: Article

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