Terrestrial selenium distribution in China is potentially linked to monsoonal climate

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Blazina, Tim ^a,b   Sun, Youbin ^c   Voegelin, Andreas ^a   Lenz, Markus ^d,e   Berg, Michael ^a   Winkel, Lenny H E ^a,b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS NORTHWESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; SELENIUM;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); INTERGLACIAL; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; SELENIUM; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; CHINA; CHINESE; CLIMATE; EAST ASIAN; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GRAIN; INTERGLACIAL; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MAGNETISM; MONSOONAL CLIMATE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SUMMER; WINTER;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 84907380020     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5717     Document Type: Article

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