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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-3381-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-3381-2020
Research article
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02 Jul 2020
Research article |  | 02 Jul 2020

Do stream water solute concentrations reflect when connectivity occurs in a small, pre-Alpine headwater catchment?

Leonie Kiewiet, Ilja van Meerveld, Manfred Stähli, and Jan Seibert

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The sources of stream water are important, for instance, for predicting floods. The connectivity between streams and different (ground-)water sources can change during rain events, which affects the stream water composition. We investigated this for stream water sampled during four events and found that stream water came from different sources. The stream water composition changed gradually, and we showed that changes in solute concentrations could be partly linked to changes in connectivity.