Spatial Variations in Pore-Water Biogeochemistry Greatly Exceed Temporal Changes During Baseflow Conditions in a Boreal River Valley Mire Complex, Northwest Russia

Wetlands

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1171-1182

  Avagyan, Armine ^a   Runkle, Benjamin R K ^a   Hartmann, Jens ^a   Kutzbach, Lars ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boreal mire; Carbon mobilization; Dissolved organic matter, Base ions; Landscape heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

BASEFLOW; CARBON CYCLE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; ECOHYDROLOGY; HETEROGENEITY; MIRE; MOBILIZATION; PEAT SOIL; SPATIAL VARIATION; SWAMP FOREST; TRANSITION ZONE;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 85027958491     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: 19436246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13157-014-0576-4     Document Type: Article

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