Organic carbon cycling in sediments of the Changjiang Estuary and adjacent shelf: Implication for the influence of Three Gorges Dam

Journal of Marine Systems

Volumn 139, Issue , 2014, Pages 409-419

  Li, Dong ^a,b   Yao, Peng ^a,b,c   Bianchi, Thomas S ^d   Zhang, Tingting ^a,b   Zhao, Bin ^a,b   Pan, Huihui ^a,b   Wang, Jinpeng ^a,b   Yu, Zhigang ^a,b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c Qingdao Collaborative Innovation Center of Marine Science and Technology   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Changjiang Estuary; Decay; Hydrodynamic sorting; Lignin; Sedimentary organic carbon; Three Gorges Dam

Indexed keywords

ESTUARIES; LIGNIN; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

CHANGJIANG ESTUARY; DECAY; END MEMBER MIXING; FINE-GRAINED PARTICLES; ORGANIC CARBON CYCLING; SELECTIVE TRANSPORT; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; THREE GORGES DAM;

ORGANIC CARBON;

C3 PLANT; CARBON ISOTOPE; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; HYDRODYNAMICS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LIGNIN; ORGANIC CARBON; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SHELF SEDIMENT; SORTING; TERRIGENOUS DEPOSIT;

CHINA; HUBEI; THREE GORGES DAM; YANGTZE ESTUARY;

EID: 84907521526     PISSN: 09247963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2014.08.009     Document Type: Article

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