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Study sites
Country/
Length/
DOC
Reference
latitudes
watershed area a
Surface (Depth) c
Deeper (Depth) b
km or (km 2
) a
(μM C)
Kuji River & 3 Tributaries, North Kanto
Japan
–
92–175
–
Nagao et al. (2003)
Tributaries (n
= 8)
30–35ºN
–
122–271
–
Mostofa et al. (2007a)
Dongjiang tributary, South China Sea
China
–
186–227
–
He et al. (2010)
Tributaries of NenJiang River
North-East China –
177–2429
–
Mostofa KMG et al.,
(unpublished data)
Tributary of LiaoHe River (n
= 2)
North-East China –
631–640
–
Mostofa KMG et al.,
(unpublished data)
Irrigation Channels, Japan (n
= 19)
30–35ºN
3–5
65–210
–
Mostofa et al. (2007a)
Africa
Zaïre (or Congo) River (Angola, Burundi,
Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Rwanda, Tanzania,
Zambia)
Africa
4700 (40,00,000) 250–833
–
Martins and Probst (1991)
Niger River (Guinea, Mali, Niger, Benin, Nigeria) Africa
4180 (11,25,000) 167–500
–
Martins and Probst (1991)
Gambia River (Republic of Guinea, The Gambia) West Africa
1130 (42,000)
83–333
–
Martins and Probst (1991)
Europe
Lena River, East Siberia
Russia
4472 (2,500,000) 309–1042
–
Lara et al. (1998)
Rivers (n
= 3), Arctic Russia
66–71ºN
142–3917
–
Duff et al. (1999)
Mura River, Slovenia
Slovenia
438 (13,824)
150–708
–
Brodnjak-Vonˇ cina et al.
(2002)
River Tyne, UK
55ºN
(2,935)
275–1275
–
Baker and Spencer (2004)
Rhône River
SwitzerlandFrance
(98,000)
94–818
–
Rostan and Cellot (1995)
Scheldt River
France, Belgium,
Netherlands
~350 (21,600)
567
–
Abril et al. (2000)
Rhine River (Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland,
France, Netherlands)
–
~1233 (224,000)
242–442
–
Eisma et al. (1982), Abril
et al. (2002)
Gironde River
France, Spain
~602 (71,000)
258
–
Veyssy (1998)
Table
2 (continued)
(continued)