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SUBMITTER: Drake TW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6650295 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Drake Travis W TW Van Oost Kristof K Barthel Matti M Bauters Marijn M Hoyt Alison M AM Podgorski David C DC Six Johan J Boeckx Pascal P Trumbore Susan E SE Ntaboba Landry Cizungu LC Spencer Robert G M RGM
Nature geoscience 20190624 7
In the mostly pristine Congo Basin, agricultural land-use change has intensified in recent years. One potential and understudied consequence of this deforestation and conversion to agriculture is the mobilization and loss of organic matter from soils to rivers as dissolved organic matter. Here, we quantify and characterize dissolved organic matter sampled from 19 catchments of varying deforestation extent near Lake Kivu over a two-week period during the wet season. Dissolved organic carbon from ...[more]