Paleoreconstruction of organic carbon inputs to an oxbow lake in the Mississippi River watershed: Effects of dam construction and land use change on regional inputs

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 7983-7991

  Bianchi, Thomas S ^a   Galy, Valier ^b   Rosenheim, Brad E ^c   Shields, Michael ^a   Cui, Xingqian ^a   Van Metre, Peter ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

biomarker proxies; dam reservoirs; organic carbon cycling; paleoreconstruction

Indexed keywords

LAKES; LAND USE; LIGNIN; ORGANIC CARBON; PHENOLS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RIVERS; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOILS;

CONSERVATION MEASURES; DAM RESERVOIRS; HYDROLOGICAL MODIFICATIONS; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; ORGANIC CARBON CYCLING; PALEORECONSTRUCTION; THERMO-CHEMICAL STABILITY;

FATTY ACIDS;

BIOMARKER; BONE; CARBON CYCLE; DAM CONSTRUCTION; FATTY ACID; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; LAND USE CHANGE; LIGNIN; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; ORGANIC CARBON; OXBOW LAKE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHENOL; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT CORE; SOIL CONSERVATION; WATERSHED;

LAKE WHITTINGTON; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; MISSOURI RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84947019972     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL065595     Document Type: Article

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