Loading and utilization of dissolved organic carbon from emergent macrophytes

Aquatic Botany

Volumn 53, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 61-72

  Mann, Carroll J ^a   Wetzel, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic plants organic leaching; Bacterial decomposition; Dissolved organic matter

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000026866     PISSN: 03043770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3770(95)01012-2     Document Type: Article

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