Spatial and seasonal variation of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentrations in Irish streams: Importance of soil and topography characteristics

Environmental Management

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 959-967

  Liu, Wen ^a   Xu, Xianli ^b   McGoff, Nicola M ^c   Eaton, James M ^c   Leahy, Paul ^c   Foley, Nelius ^c   Kiely, Gerard ^c  

^a HUNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

DOC concentrations; Ireland; Riverine DOC; Stream DOC; Water quality

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; LINEAR REGRESSION; RIVERS; SOILS; STREAM FLOW; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER QUALITY;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DOC CONCENTRATIONS; IRELAND; ORGANIC CARBON CONTENTS; RIVERINE DOC; SATURATION EXCESS RUNOFFS; STEPWISE MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION; STREAM DOC;

ORGANIC CARBON;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC CARBON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AUTUMN; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; LITTERFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL DRAINAGE; SPATIAL VARIATION; STREAM; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY; WINTER;

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CLIMATE; PRECIPITATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL; SPRING; SUMMER; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER SAMPLING; WATERSHED; WINTER;

EUROPE; IRELAND; NORTH AMERICA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARBON; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; IRELAND; LINEAR MODELS; RIVERS; SEASONS; SOIL; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84898021619     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-014-0259-1     Document Type: Article

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