Adjacent catchments with similar patterns of land use and climate have markedly different dissolved organic carbon concentration and runoff dynamics

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1436-1449

  Oni, Stephen K ^a,b   Futter, Martyn N ^a,b   Molot, Lewis A ^c   Dillon, Peter J ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dissolved organic carbon; Lake Simcoe; Land use change; Remote sensing; Runoff change; Variability

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; LAKE SIMCOE; LAND-USE CHANGE; RUNOFF CHANGES; VARIABILITY;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; LAKES; LAND USE; REMOTE SENSING; STREAM FLOW;

RUNOFF;

CATCHMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; FLOW MODELING; FOREST COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); REMOTE SENSING; RUNOFF; SATELLITE DATA;

CANADA; LAKE SIMCOE; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 84891735262     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9681     Document Type: Article

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