When Water Vanishes: Magnitude and Regulation of Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Dry Temporary Streams

Ecosystems

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 710-723

  Gómez Gener, Lluís ^a   Obrador, Biel ^a   Marcé, Rafael ^b   Acuña, Vicenç ^b   Catalán, Núria ^c   Casas Ruiz, Joan Pere ^b   Sabater, Sergi ^b   Muñoz, Isabel ^a   von Schiller, Daniel ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

drought; dry streambeds; fluvial network; fluxes; greenhouse gas emissions; intermittent; streams

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON FLUX; DROUGHT STRESS; GLOBAL CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GAS; STREAM; STREAM BED;

EID: 84970028328     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-016-9963-4     Document Type: Article

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