Tracing sources of organic matter in adjacent urban streams having different degrees of channel modification

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 485-486, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 252-262

  Duan, Shuiwang ^a,b   Amon, Rainer M W ^a   Brinkmeyer, Robin L ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT GALVESTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel modification; DOM; Organic matter; Stable isotopes; Urban streams; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; EFFLUENTS; ISOTOPES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SURFACE WATERS; WASTEWATER;

ALLOCHTHONOUS ORGANIC MATTER; CHANNEL MODIFICATION; DOM; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTERS; STABLE ISOTOPES; TERRESTRIAL ORGANIC MATTER; URBAN STREAM; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;

CARBON 13; CHLOROPHYLL A; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; NITROGEN 15; ORGANIC MATTER;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; HEADWATER; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; PHYTOPLANKTON; STABLE ISOTOPE; STREAM; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; WASTE FACILITY; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CARBON NITROGEN RATIO; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; ISOTOPE TRACING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; STREAM (RIVER); SURFACE WATER HYDROLOGY; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; WATER FLOW; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

HOUSTON; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

CHANNEL MODIFICATION; DOM; ORGANIC MATTER; STABLE ISOTOPES; URBAN STREAMS; WASTEWATER;

CARBON ISOTOPES; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; RIVERS; TEXAS; URBANIZATION; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84898465491     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.03.066     Document Type: Article

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