Peat deformation and biogenic gas bubbles control seasonal variations in peat hydraulic conductivity

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 3208-3216

  Kettridge, Nicholas ^a   Kellner, Erik ^b   Price, Jonathan S ^c   Waddington, James M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Deformation; Gas bubbles; Hydraulic conductivity; Methane; Peat

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); DEFORMATION; GASES; GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; METHANE; PORE SIZE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WETLANDS;

BIOGENIC GAS BUBBLES; DRAINAGE EXPERIMENTS; GAS BUBBLE; METHANE PRODUCTION; MONITORING CHANGE; MULTICOLLINEARITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

PEAT;

BUBBLE; DEFORMATION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; METHANE; PEAT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VOLUME CHANGE; WATER TABLE;

EID: 84884988310     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9369     Document Type: Article

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