Water balance, nutrient and carbon export from a heath forest catchment in central Amazonia, Brazil

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 29, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 3633-3648

  Zanchi, Fabrício B ^a,b   Waterloo, Maarten J ^a   Tapia, Andrés Peralta ^a   Alvarado Barrientos, Maria S ^c   Bolson, Marcos A ^d   Luizão, Flávio J ^d   Manzi, Antônio O ^d   Dolman, Albertus J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

DOC export; Evapotranspiration; Groundwater; Heath forest; River runoff; Water balance

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CATCHMENTS; ECOSYSTEMS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FORESTRY; GROUNDWATER; LANDFORMS; NUTRIENTS; RAIN; RUNOFF;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DOC EXPORT; HEATH FOREST; RAINFALL INTERCEPTION; REGIONAL GROUNDWATER; RETENTION CAPACITY; RIVER RUNOFFS; WATER BALANCE;

ORGANIC CARBON;

CARBON BUDGET; CATCHMENT; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; NUTRIENT; RAINFALL; RUNOFF; WATER BUDGET;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTS; GROUND WATER; RIVERS; RUNOFF;

AMAZON BASIN; AMAZONIA; BRAZIL;

EID: 84938703473     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10458     Document Type: Article

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