Export of dissolved organic carbon from the Penobscot River basin in north-central Maine

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 476, Issue , 2013, Pages 244-256

  Huntington, Thomas G ^a   Aiken, George R ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon cycling; Concentration discharge relations; Controls on carbon export; Export of dissolved organic carbon; Linking terrestrial and marine systems; Modeling carbon export

Indexed keywords

BOREAL RIVERS; CARBON CYCLING; CARBON EXPORT; DISCHARGE MEASUREMENTS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; MARINE SYSTEMS; PER UNIT; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; RIVER BASINS; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL FLUSHING; STREAM DISCHARGE; WATER SAMPLING; WATERSHED AREAS; WETLAND AREA;

CARBON; RIVERS; WATERSHEDS; WETLANDS;

STREAM FLOW;

CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOFTWARE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TRIBUTARY; WETLAND;

MAINE; PENOBSCOT RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870996592     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.10.039     Document Type: Article

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