Long-term trends of organic carbon concentrations in freshwaters: Strengths and weaknesses of existing evidence

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1360-1418

  Filella, Montserrat ^a,b   Rodríguez Murillo, Juan Carlos ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b SCHEMA ^*  (Luxembourg)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dissolved organic carbon; DOC; Freshwaters; Lakes; Organic carbon; Rivers; Temporal trends; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

LAKES; ORGANIC CARBON; RIVERS; STREAM FLOW;

CARBON CONCENTRATIONS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DOC; FRESH WATER; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; TEMPORAL TRENDS;

WATER;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; ORGANIC CARBON; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84902007533     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w6051360     Document Type: Review

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