A global assessment of freshwater mollusk shell oxygen isotope signatures and their relation to precipitation and stream water.
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SUBMITTER: Pfister L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6416266 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar
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A global assessment of freshwater mollusk shell oxygen isotope signatures and their relation to precipitation and stream water.
Pfister L L Grave C C Beisel J-N JN McDonnell J J JJ
Scientific reports 20190313 1
Records of δ<sup>18</sup>O in stream flow are critical for understanding and modeling hydrological, ecological, biogeochemical and atmospheric processes. However, the number of such records are extremely limited globally and the length of such time series are usually less than a decade. This situation severely handicaps their use in model testing and evaluation. Here we present a global assessment of freshwater mollusk (bivalves & gastropods) isotope data from 25 river basins that have stream wa ...[more]
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