Identifying the role of environmental drivers in organic carbon export from a forested peat catchment

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 490, Issue , 2014, Pages 28-36

  Ryder, Elizabeth ^a   de Eyto, Elvira ^b   Dillane, Mary ^b   Poole, Russell ^b   Jennings, Eleanor ^a  

^a DUNDALK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

^b MARINE INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Climate effects; Dissolved organic carbon; High resolution monitoring; Particulate organic carbon; Peat catchment

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DROUGHT; FORESTRY; PEAT; RUNOFF; SOILS; STREAM FLOW; TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE EFFECTS; COMMERCIAL FORESTRY; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DROUGHT CONDITIONS; FUTURE CLIMATE SCENARIOS; HIGH-RESOLUTION MONITORING; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

CATCHMENTS;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; RAIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARBON; SOIL; WATER POLLUTANT;

CARBON CYCLE; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE EFFECT; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DROUGHT; FUTURE PROSPECT; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; PEAT; PEATLAND; RIVER DISCHARGE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; STREAMWATER;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON EXPORT; CARBON STORAGE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; IRELAND; PEATLAND; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; SOIL; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTANT;

CARBON; DROUGHT; FORESTRY; PEAT; RUNOFF; SOIL; STREAM FLOW; TEMPERATURE;

IRELAND;

CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; IRELAND; SOIL; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84900824555     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.04.091     Document Type: Article

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