Methodological perspectives on the application of compound-specific stable isotope fingerprinting for sediment source apportionment

Journal of Soils and Sediments

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1537-1553

  Upadhayay, Hari R ^a,b   Bodé, Samuel ^a   Griepentrog, Marco ^a   Huygens, Dries ^a   Bajracharya, Roshan M ^b   Blake, William H ^c   Dercon, Gerd ^d   Mabit, Lionel ^d   Gibbs, Max ^e   Semmens, Brice X ^f   Stock, Brian C ^f   Cornelis, Wim ^a   Boeckx, Pascal ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b KATHMANDU UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotracers; Compound specific stable isotope (CSSI) analysis; Erosion; Fatty acids (FAs); Sediment fingerprinting; Stable isotope mixing models (SIMMS)

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; COMPLEXITY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FATTY ACID; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL EROSION; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRACER;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 85017463484     PISSN: 14390108     EISSN: 16147480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11368-017-1706-4     Document Type: Review

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