Accelerated export of sediment and carbon from a landscape under intensive agriculture

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 476-477, Issue , 2014, Pages 643-656

  Glendell, M ^a   Brazier, R E ^a  

^a Amory Building   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Carbon; Climate change; Fluvial export; Land use; Sediment

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND USE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTS; SOILS; STORMS; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENTS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; EXTREME HYDROLOGICAL EVENTS; FLUVIAL EXPORT; SEMI-NATURAL VEGETATION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER TURNOVER; TOTAL SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

CATCHMENTS;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; ORGANIC CARBON; RAIN; RUNOFF;

AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENT; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; LAND USE PLANNING; PARTICULATE MATTER; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); HYDROLOGY; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SOIL EROSION; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TURBIDITY; VEGETATION; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURE; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLUVIAL EXPORT; LAND USE; SEDIMENT;

AGRICULTURE; CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; RIVERS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84893466586     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.01.057     Document Type: Article

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