The Bode hydrological observatory: a platform for integrated, interdisciplinary hydro-ecological research within the TERENO Harz/Central German Lowland Observatory

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Wollschläger, Ute ^a,b   Attinger, Sabine ^a,b   Borchardt, Dietrich ^a,b   Brauns, Mario ^a   Cuntz, Matthias ^a,f   Dietrich, Peter ^a,b   Fleckenstein, Jan H ^a,b   Friese, Kurt ^a   Friesen, Jan ^a   Harpke, Alexander ^a   Hildebrandt, Anke ^c   Jäckel, Greta ^a   Kamjunke, Norbert ^a   Knöller, Kay ^a   Kögler, Simon ^a,b   Kolditz, Olaf ^a,b   Krieg, Ronald ^a   Kumar, Rohini ^a   Lausch, Angela ^a   Liess, Matthias ^a   Marx, Andreas ^a   Merz, Ralf ^a   Mueller, Christin ^a   Musolff, Andreas ^a   Norf, Helge ^a   Oswald, Sascha E ^d   Rebmann, Corinna ^a   Reinstorf, Frido ^e   Rode, Michael ^a   Rink, Karsten ^a   Rinke, Karsten ^a   Samaniego, Luis ^a,b   Vieweg, Michael ^a,b   Vogel, Hans Jörg ^a,b   Weitere, Markus ^a   Werban, Ulrike ^a,b   Zink, Matthias ^a,b   Zacharias, Steffen ^a   more..

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES MAGDEBURG STENDAL   (Germany)

^f LERFoB   (France)

Author keywords

Catchment; Monitoring; Observatory; Water fluxes; Water quality

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; ECOLOGY; LAND USE; MONITORING; RUNOFF; WATER QUALITY;

ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL OBSERVATORIES; FUNCTIONAL ZONES; HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS; INTENSIVE RESEARCH; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; SPECIFIC COMPONENT; WATER FLUX;

OBSERVATORIES;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CATCHMENT; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; MONITORING; OBSERVATORY; WATER EXCHANGE; WATER QUALITY; WETLAND;

BODE RIVER; GERMANY; SAXONY-ANHALT;

EID: 85007085389     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-016-6327-5     Document Type: Article

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