Aquatic methane dynamics in a human-impacted river-floodplain of the Danube

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 61, Issue , 2016, Pages S175-S187

  Sieczko, Anna Katarzyna ^a   Demeter, Katalin ^a   Singer, Gabriel Andreas ^b   Tritthart, Michael ^c   Preiner, Stefan ^c,d   Mayr, Magdalena ^a   Meisterl, Karin ^a   Peduzzi, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^d Inter University Centre for Aquatic Ecosystem Research   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON EMISSION; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; FLUX MEASUREMENT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; METHANE; RIVER BASIN; RIVER CHANNEL; RIVER WATER;

AUSTRIA; DANUBE RIVER; VIENNA;

EID: 84976892796     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lno.10346     Document Type: Article

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