Hydrological and land use control of watershed exports of dissolved organic matter in a large arid river basin in northwestern China

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 466-478

  Hu, Yue ^a   Lu, YueHan ^b   Edmonds, Jennifer W ^c   Liu, Chuankun ^a   Wang, Sai ^a   Das, Oindrila ^b   Liu, Jie ^a   Zheng, Chunmiao ^a,b,d  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^c NEVADA STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^d SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

agricultural land use; arid; DOM; EEM PARAFAC; Heihe River; water discharge

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AQUIFER; ARID REGION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; FLUORESCENCE; GROUNDWATER; HUMIFICATION; LAND USE; RIVER BASIN; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER WATER; RUNOFF; TOPSOIL; WATERSHED;

CHINA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84958818950     PISSN: 21698953     EISSN: 21698961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015JG003082     Document Type: Article

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