Annual water, sediment, nutrient, and organic carbon fluxes in river basins: A global meta-analysis as a function of scale

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 8949-8972

  Mutema, M ^a   Chaplot, V ^a,b   Jewitt, G ^a   Chivenge, P ^a,c   Bloschl G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics   (Zimbabwe)

^d VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

climate; organic carbon and nutrient erosion; runoff coefficient; sediments; spatial scale; water pollution

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; EROSION; LAND USE; NUTRIENTS; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; ORGANIC CARBON FLUXES; RUNOFF COEFFICIENTS; SPATIAL SCALE; SPATIO-TEMPORAL SCALE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

ORGANIC CARBON;

CARBON FLUX; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE VARIATION; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; META-ANALYSIS; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; ORGANIC CARBON; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); RIVER BASIN; RUNOFF; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WATER EROSION; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 84956792068     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR016668     Document Type: Article

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