Biogeochemistry of carbon, major and trace elements in watersheds of northern Eurasia drained to the Arctic Ocean: The change of fluxes, sources and mechanisms under the climate warming prospective

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 344, Issue 11-12, 2012, Pages 663-677

  Pokrovsky, Oleg S ^a   Viers, Jérôme ^a   Dupré, Bernard ^a   Chabaux, François ^b   Gaillardet, Jérôme ^c   Audry, Stéphane ^a   Prokushkin, Anatoly S ^d   Shirokova, Liudmila S ^e   Kirpotin, Sergey N ^f   Lapitsky, Sergey A ^g   Shevchenko, Vladimir P ^h  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG EOST   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^d SUKACHEV INSTITUTE OF FOREST   (Russian Federation)

^e INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF THE NORTH   (Russian Federation)

^f TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^g MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^h SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Arctic; Carbon; Fluxes; Geochemistry; Permafrost; Weathering

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GLOBAL WARMING; MOBILIZATION; PERMAFROST; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RESERVOIR; RIVER WATER; TRACE ELEMENT; WATERSHED;

ARCTIC OCEAN; KAMCHATKA; KAMCHATKA PENINSULA; KARELIA [(RGG) EURASIA]; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA;

EID: 84870754089     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2012.08.003     Document Type: Article

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