Dissolved organic carbon concentration and its relationship to electrical conductivity in the waters of a stream in a forested Amazonian blackwater catchment

Plant Ecology and Diversity

Volumn 7, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 205-213

  Monteiro, Maria T F ^a   Oliveira, Sylvia M ^b   Luizão, Flávio J ^a   Cândido, Luiz A ^a   Ishida, Françoise Y ^a   Tomasella, Javier ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon Basin; derived DOC concentration; dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentration; electrical conductivity; forest streams; tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893244557     PISSN: 17550874     EISSN: 17551668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2013.820223     Document Type: Article

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