Apportioning sources of organic matter in streambed sediments: An integrated molecular and compound-specific stable isotope approach

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 520, Issue , 2015, Pages 187-197

  Cooper, Richard J ^a   Pedentchouk, Nikolai ^a   Hiscock, Kevin M ^a   Disdle, Paul ^a   Krueger, Tobias ^b   Rawlins, Barry G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Carbon; Fingerprinting; Hydrogen; Mixing model; N Alkanes

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBON; CATCHMENTS; CHAIN LENGTH; CHAINS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; HYDROGEN; ISOTOPES; MIXING; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PARAFFINS; SEDIMENTS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN; COMPOUND SPECIFIC ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; FINGERPRINTING; MIXING MODELS; N-ALKANES; ORGANIC MATTER SOURCE; PLANT FUNCTIONAL TYPE; STABLE-ISOTOPE ANALYSIS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ALKANE; CARBON 13; DEUTERIUM; ORGANIC MATTER; STABLE ISOTOPE; CARBON; WATER POLLUTANT;

ALKANE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CARBON; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HYDROGEN; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ORGANIC MATTER; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; STABLE ISOTOPE; STREAM BED;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; AVERAGE CHAIN LENGTH; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CATCHMENT; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; COMPOUND SPECIFIC STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERENNIAL PLANT; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STREAM (RIVER); TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; TREE; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; PROCEDURES; RIVER; WATER POLLUTANT;

CARBON; HYDROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; PLANTS;

BAYES THEOREM; CARBON ISOTOPES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84925358858     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.03.058     Document Type: Article

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