Seaweed biofilters as regulators of water quality in integrated fish-seaweed culture units

Aquaculture

Volumn 141, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 183-199

  Neori, Amir ^a   Krom, Michael D ^b   Ellner, Steve P ^c   Boyd, Claude E ^d   Popper, Dan ^a   Rabinovitch, Ruth ^a   Davison, Patrick J ^b   Dvir, Orit ^a   Zuber, Daniel ^a   Ucko, Michal ^a   Angel, Dror ^a   Gordin, Hillel ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR MARICULTURE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Effluents; Fish; Nutrients; Recirculating; Seaweed biofilters; Sustainable mariculture; Water quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000312411     PISSN: 00448486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0044-8486(95)01223-0     Document Type: Article

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