Bromine soil/sediment enrichment in tidal salt marshes as a potential indicator of climate changes driven by solar activity: New insights from W coast Portuguese estuaries

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 580, Issue , 2017, Pages 324-338

  Moreno, J ^a,b   Fatela, F ^a,b   Leorri, E ^c   Moreno, F ^d   Freitas, M C ^a,b   Valente, T ^e,f   Araujo M F ^a   Gomez Navarro J J ^g   Guise, L ^e   Blake, W H ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Independent University   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Br cycle; Climate modelling; Climate variability; Grand Solar Minima; OM storage; Salt marshes

Indexed keywords

BROMINE; CLIMATE MODELS; ESTUARIES; SOILS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; WETLANDS;

ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACTS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; ENRICHMENT PATTERNS; POTENTIAL INDICATORS; SALT MARSHES; SOLAR MINIMA; TRANSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BROMIDE ION; BROMINE; ORGANIC MATTER; ORGANOBROMINE DERIVATIVE; SEA WATER;

BROMINE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; ORGANIC MATTER; SALTMARSH; SOLAR ACTIVITY; TIDAL FLAT;

ARTICLE; BROMINATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ESTUARY; ORGANIC MATTER PRODUCTION; PORTUGAL; SALT MARSH; SEDIMENT; SOIL; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE SOIL; VOLCANO; WATER SAMPLING;

BEJA [PORTUGAL]; MINHO ESTUARY; MIRA ESTUARY; PORTUGAL; SADO ESTUARY; SETUBAL [PORTUGAL];

EID: 85009286711     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.11.130     Document Type: Article

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