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Appendix B
Source / Site / Mean base [DON] (mg/L) (± 1 SE) / Mean pulse [DON] (mg/L) (± 1 SE) / P:B*(± 1 SE) / Mean base flow yield
(g N m-2 d-1) (± 1 SE) / Mean pulse flow yield
(g N m-2 d-1) (± 1 SE) / Mean base DOM C:N / DOM C:N
range during pulse events
Bernal and others 2005 / Fuirosos River / 0.257 / 0.423 / 1.61 / NA / NA / 33 / 3.4-170.8
Brooks and others 2007 / San Pedro River / 0.156 (0.029) / 0.296 (0.034) / 2.16 (0.61) / 0.03
(0.01) / 1.08
(0.29) / 32.8 / 9.4-50.2
Buffam and others 2001 / Paine Run / 0.021 / 0.052 / 2.48 / NA / NA / NA / NA
Coats and Goldman 2001 / Blackwood / 0.057 / 0.075 / 1.32 / 4.21 / 82.3 / NA / NA
Incline / 0.075 / 0.165 / 2.20 / 0.51 / 12.0 / NA / NA
Third Creek / 0.011 / 0.023 / 2.13 / 0.07 / 2.40 / NA / NA
Upper Truckee R. / 0.077 / 0.127 / 1.66 / 4.35 / 68.4 / NA / NA
Hagedorn and others 2001 / headwater catchment / 0.079 / 0.615 / 7.76 / 12.2 / 2000 / 28.2 / 6.7-25.0
Holmes and others 2011, CADIS-AON / Kolyma / 0.108 / 0.186 / 1.72 / NA / NA / 31.1 / 46.2-71.0
Lena / 0.248 (0.031) / 0.740 (0.269) / 2.81 (1.17) / NA / NA / 39.5 / 21.6-50.4
Mackenzie / 0.156 / 0.252 / 1.61 / NA / NA / 42.8 / 42.1-51.9
Ob / 0.099 / 0.222 / 2.24 / NA / NA / 45.7 / 22.1-49.3
Yenisey / 0.095 / 0.228 / 2.40 / NA / NA / 49.8 / 27.7-72.0
Yukon / 0.112 (0.012) / 0.303 (0.022) / 2.71 (0.74) / NA / NA / 25.0 / 38.4-41.2
Inamdar and Mitchell 2007 / S1 / 0.171 (0.114) / 0.749 (0.151) / 9.53 (3.88) / 22.8
(14.1) / 1270 (960) / 62.8 / 4.9-42.9
S2 / 0.238 (0.086) / 0.505 (0.157) / 2.24 (0.89) / 497 (261) / 3320 (1420) / 18.1 / 4.0-44.9
S3 / 0.252 / 0.294 / 1.17 / 691 / 1450 / 10.5 / 8.3-10.9
S5 / 0.106 / 0.280 / 2.65 / 61.9 / 761 / 58.6 / 10.2-47.2
Kaushal and Lewis 2003 / McCullough Gulch / 0.108 / 0.086 / 0.80 / NA / NA / 2.31 / 26.27
Spruce Creek / 0.085 / 0.096 / 1.13 / NA / NA / 3.71 / 31.29
Petrone and others 2006 / High Permafrost / 0.190 (0.032) / 0.310 (0.028) / 1.72 (0.6) / 3.6
(1.1) / 41.1
(8.3) / 42.9 / 6.3-101.8
Medium permafrost / 0.088 (0.009) / 0.160 (0.033) / 1.74 (0.74 / 4.11
(0.28) / 17.1
(2.1) / 84.0 / 19.3-52.9
Low permafrost / 0.099 / 0.183 / 1.85 / 3.28 / 23.9 / 53.1 / 49.2-66.0
Petrone and others 2007 / forest catchment / 0.154 / 0.490 / 3.19 / 0.05 / 8.00 / 14.7 / 15.7-51.9
wetland catchment / 0.415 / 0.475 / 1.15 / 0.08 / 13.3 / 90.8 / 51.7-81.9
Sobota, D, unpub. / American River / 0.078 / 0.163 / 2.08 / 11.5 / 88.5 / 23.9 / 6.0-31.5
Bear River / 0.102 / 0.188 / 1.84 / 0.79 / 183 / 21.8 / 18.8-53.0
Cache Creek / 0.135 / 0.129 / 0.95 / 0.62 / 18.8 / 51.3 / 5.0-99.2
Calaveras River / 0.358 / 0.602 / 1.68 / 5.08 / 291 / 14.7 / 17.8-19.9
Feather River / 0.138 / 0.112 / 0.81 / 10.9 / 37.2 / 24.0 / 18.0-24.1
Lower Sacramento River / 0.193 / 0.166 / 0.86 / 16.2 / 47.8 / 13.5 / 8.5-23.3
Lower San Joaquin River / 0.502 / 0.25 / 0.50 / 17.4 / 46.3 / 10.0 / 13.9-27.1
Merced River / 0.171 / 0.138 / 0.811 / 4.12 / 28.8 / 15.8 / 11.7-38.2
Mokelumne River / 0.135 / 0.192 / 1.42 / 4.41 / 33.7 / 21.0 / 7.5-25.9
Salt/Mud Slough / 0.723 / 1.99 / 2.76 / 24.5 / 140 / 13.7 / 2.6-10.4
Stanislaus River / 0.205 / 0.353 / 1.72 / 8.94 / 95.8 / 16.9 / 5.9-24.5
Tuolumne River / 0.168 / 0.070 / 0.42 / 4.96 / 16.1 / 13.9 / 22.4-84.6
Upper Sacramento River / 0.110 / 0.123 / 1.11 / 16.6 / 50.7 / 23.4 / 7.4-105.0
Upper San Joaquin River / 0.511 / 0.528 / 1.03 / 4.50 / 104 / 17.9 / 12.0-22.8
Sebestyen and others 2008 / Pope Brook (W-9) / 0.038 (0.002) / 0.084 (0.019) / 2.18 (0.94) / 3.34
(1.10) / 32.1
(13.5) / 31.9 / 11.5-58.6
Stepanauskas and others 2000 / Lillån / 0.439 / 0.437 / 1.0 / 22.5 / 504 / 50.7 / 56.2-72.1
Stridbäcken / 0.245 / 0.241 / 0.98 / 4.74 / 252 / 54.9 / 38.5-57.7
Townsend-Small and others 2011 / Upper Kuparuk R. / 0.252 (0.050) / 0.363 (0.092) / 1.40 (0.66) / NA / NA / 20.5 / 26.7-37.9
US Geological Survey, B. Pellerin, unpub. / Willow Slough / 0.345 (0.053) / 0.711 (0.169) / 1.99 (1.02) / NA / NA / 14.9 / 4.9-31.3
Wiegner and others 2009 / Wailuku R. / 0.035 (0.008) / 0.074 (0.009) / 2.26 (0.87) / NA / NA / NA / NA
Williams and others 2001, Hood and others 2003 / North Boulder Creek, Green Lake 4 (GL4) / 0.114 (0.066) / 0.029 (0.008) / 0.30 (1.81) / 40.5
(37.5) / 35.0
(7.3) / NA / NA
Wondzell and Swanson 1996 / McRae Creek / 0.020 / 0.023 / 1.15 / NA / NA / NA / NA
*P:B is the geometric mean for sites with SE provided.
NA Adequate data not available
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