Labile pyrogenic dissolved organic carbon in major Siberian Arctic rivers: Implications for wildfire-stream metabolic linkages

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 377-385

  Myers Pigg, Allison N ^a   Louchouarn, Patrick ^a   Amon, Rainer M W ^a   Prokushkin, Anatoly ^b,c   Pierce, Kayce ^a   Rubtsov, Alexey ^b,c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SUKACHEV INSTITUTE OF FOREST   (Russian Federation)

^c SIBERIAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Arctic rivers; carbon cycling; DOC; pyrogenic carbon

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COMBUSTION; DEGRADATION; FIRES; ORGANIC CARBON; STREAM FLOW; TEMPERATURE; WATERSHEDS;

ARCTIC RIVERS; CARBON CYCLING; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DOC; FIRST-ORDER DEGRADATION RATES; HIGH-TEMPERATURE COMBUSTION; HYDROLOGIC EVENTS; LOW TEMPERATURES;

RIVERS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOMARKER; BIOMASS BURNING; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; METABOLISM; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED; WILDFIRE;

SIBERIA;

GYMNOSPERMAE;

EID: 84923544835     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062762     Document Type: Article

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