Agricultural land use alters the seasonality and magnitude of stream metabolism

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1513-1529

  Griffiths, Natalie A ^a   Tank, Jennifer L ^a   Royer, Todd V ^b   Roley, Sarah S ^a   Rosi Marshall, Emma J ^c   Whiles, Matt R ^d   Beaulieu, Jake J ^a   Johnson, Laura T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^d SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AUTOTROPHY; BASEFLOW; CARBON FLUX; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; LAND USE CHANGE; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; MAGNITUDE; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RESPIRATION; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; STREAM; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

MIDWEST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879587274     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2013.58.4.1513     Document Type: Article

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