Biogeochemical processes controlling aquatic quality during drying and rewetting events in a Mediterranean non-perennial river reach

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 575, Issue , 2017, Pages 378-389

  Skoulikidis, Nikolaos Th ^a   Vardakas, Leonidas ^a   Amaxidis, Yorgos ^a   Michalopoulos, Panagiotis ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biogeochemical processes; Carbonate precipitation; Desiccation; Epsomite dissolution; Non perennial rivers; Nutrients; Photosynthesis; Re flooding; Respiration

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBONATION; DISSOLUTION; DRIERS (MATERIALS); FLOODS; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; METABOLISM; NUTRIENTS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RIVERS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; CARBONATE PRECIPITATION; DESICCATION; EPSOMITE; RESPIRATION;

PROCESS CONTROL;

AMMONIA; CALCIUM SULFATE; CARBONIC ACID; MAGNESIUM SULFATE;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; DESICCATION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; REWETTING; RIVER WATER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

AMMONIFICATION; ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DESICCATION; DISSOLUTION; GREECE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MICROHABITAT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WATER TEMPERATURE;

GREECE;

EID: 84992052290     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.10.015     Document Type: Article

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