Temperature and precipitation drive temporal variability in aquatic carbon and GHG concentrations and fluxes in a peatland catchment

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2133-2148

  Dinsmore, K J ^a   Billett, M F ^a   Dyson, K E ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aquatic carbon; Aquatic export; CO2; DOC; Evasion; Greenhouse gases; Peatland; POC; Temporal variability

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FRESH WATER;

ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; GREENHOUSE GAS; METHANE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OMBROTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; ORGANIC CARBON; PEATLAND; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; CARBON CYCLE; CHEMISTRY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POACEAE; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER FLOW;

CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; FRESH WATER; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POACEAE; SCOTLAND; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; WATER MOVEMENTS;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84878652561     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12209     Document Type: Article

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