Anthropogenic and climatic impacts on historic sediment, carbon, and phosphorus accumulation rates using ²¹⁰Pb_ex and ¹³⁷Cs in a sub-watershed linked to Zarivar Lake, Iran.

ABSTRACT: To estimate a watershed's response to climate change, it is crucial to understand how human activities and climatic extremes have interacted over time. Over the last century, the Zarivar Lake watershed, Iran, has been subjected to various anthropogenic activates, including deforestation and inappropriate land-management practices alongside the implementation of conservation measures like check dams. To understand the effects of these changes on the magnitude of sediment, organic carbon (OC), and phosphorus supplies in a small sub-watershed connected to the lake over the last century, a lake sediment core was dated using ²¹⁰Pb_ex and ¹³⁷Cs as geochronometers. The average mass accumulation rate (MAR), organic carbon accumulation rates (OCAR), and particulate p

SUBMITTER: Khodadadi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11374916 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature