The Selenga River delta: a geochemical barrier protecting Lake Baikal waters

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 2039-2053

  Chalov, Sergey ^a   Thorslund, Josefin ^b   Kasimov, Nikolay ^a   Aybullatov, Denis ^a   Ilyicheva, Elena ^c   Karthe, Daniel ^d   Kositsky, Alexey ^a   Lychagin, Mikhail ^a   Nittrouer, Jeff ^g   Pavlov, Maxim ^c   Pietron, Jan ^b   Shinkareva, Galina ^a   Tarasov, Mikhail ^a   Garmaev, Endon ^e   Akhtman, Yosef ^f   Jarsjö, Jerker ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c V B SOCHAVA INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^e BAIKAL INSTITUTE OF NATURE MANAGEMENT   (Russian Federation)

^f EPFL   (Switzerland)

^g RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Delta; Geochemical barrier; Lake Baikal; Sediment loads; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976259405     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-016-0996-1     Document Type: Article

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