Detrital phosphorus as a proxy of flooding events in the Changjiang River Basin

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 517, Issue , 2015, Pages 22-30

  Meng, Jia ^a,b   Yao, Peng ^a,b,c   Bianchi, Thomas S ^d   Li, Dong ^a,b   Zhao, Bin ^a,b   Xu, Bochao ^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 River Basin; Climate change; Detrital phosphorus; Environmental stressors; Floods; Hypoxia

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; FLOODS; MOLAR RATIO; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHORUS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; WATERSHEDS;

CHANGJIANG RIVER BASIN; EAST ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSORS; HYPOXIA; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; SPECIFIC SURFACE AREA (SSA); STABLE CARBON ISOTOPES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON; DETRITAL PHOSPHORUS; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHORUS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FLOODING; GRAIN SIZE; HYPOXIA; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PHOSPHORUS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTUARY; FLOODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER BASIN;

CHINA; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 84924944157     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.02.053     Document Type: Article

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