Iron concentrations are increasing in surface waters from forested headwater catchments in eastern Finland

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 463-464, Issue , 2013, Pages 683-689

  Sarkkola, Sakari ^a   Nieminen, Mika ^a   Koivusalo, Harri ^b   Laurén, Ari ^a   Kortelainen, Pirkko ^c   Mattsson, Tuija ^c   Palviainen, Marjo ^d   Piirainen, Sirpa ^a   Starr, Mike ^d   Finér, Leena ^a  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Brownification; Fe concentration; Peatland; Time series; TOC concentration; Trend analysis

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; BROWNIFICATION; CARBON CONCENTRATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; PEATLAND; TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS; TOC CONCENTRATIONS; TREND ANALYSIS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLOR; FORESTRY; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; ORGANIC CARBON; TIME SERIES;

IRON COMPOUNDS;

IRON; ORGANIC MATTER; RIVER WATER; SURFACE WATER;

AIR TEMPERATURE; COLOR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FORESTED CATCHMENT; IRON; PEATLAND; SURFACE WATER; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TREND ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CATCHMENT; COMPLEX FORMATION; FINLAND; FOREST; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREAM (RIVER); TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; WATER AND WATER RELATED PHENOMENA; WATER BROWNIFICATION; WINTER;

FINLAND;

EID: 84880340620     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.06.072     Document Type: Article

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