SCOPE 42 - Biogeochemistry of Major World Rivers  


Contents

Dedication
Foreword
Preface
Contributors
1 Spatial Variability of River Plumes and Eutrophication
K. -H. Szekielda and D. McGinnis
2 Remote Sensing of Water Substances in Rivers, Estuarine and Coastal Waters
J. Fischer, R. Doerffer and H. Grassl
3 The Biogeochemistry of a Major River System: The Amazon Case Study
J. E. Richey, R. L. Victoria, E. Salati and B. R. Forsberg
4 Carbon and Mineral Transport in Major North American, Russian Arctic, and Siberian Rivers:
The St Lawrence, the Mackenzie, the Yukon, the Arctic Alaskan Rivers, the Arctic Basin Rivers
in the Soviet Union, and the Yenisei
S. A. Telang, R. Pocklington, A. S. Naidu, E. A. Romankevich, I. I. Gitelson and M. I. Gladyshev
5 Biogeochemical Aspects of South American Rivers: The Paraná and the Orinoco
P. J. Depetris and J. E. Paolini
6 Biogeochemistry of Major African Rivers: Carbon and Mineral Transport
O. Martins and J. -L. Probst
7 Carbon Transport by the Himalayan Rivers
V. Subramanian and V. Ittekkot
8 Biogeochemistry of European Rivers
S. Kempe, M. Pettine and G. Cauwet
9 Dissolved Organic Carbon in Rivers
A. Spitzy and J. Leenheer
10 Fate of Riverine Particulate Organic Matter
V. Ittekkot and R. W. P. M. Laane
11 Stable Carbon Isotopes in Rivers and Estuaries
W. G. Mook and F. C. Tan
12 Minerals in Rivers
G. Irion
13 Particulate Matter Processes in Estuaries
D. Eisma and G. C. Cadée
14 Modelling Terrestrial Sources of Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Sulphur and Organic Carbon to Rivers
G. Esser and G. H. Kohlmaier
15 Summary: Biogeochemistry of Major World Rivers
E. T. Degens, S. Kempe and J. E. Richey
 
The electronic version of this publication has been prepared at
the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, India.