Seasonal and interannual patterns of sediment-water nutrient and oxygen fluxes in Mobile Bay, Alabama (USA): Regulating factors and ecological significance

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 141, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 229-245

  Cowan, Jean L W ^a   Pennock, Jonathan R ^b   Boynton, Walter R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^b DAUPHIN ISLAND SEA LAB   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Mobile Bay; Nutrient regeneration; Sediment water fluxes

Indexed keywords

ESTUARIES; ESTUARY; NUTRIENT; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; OXYGEN; SEDIMENT-WATER EXCHANGES; SEDIMENT/WATER EXCHANGE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

GULF OF MEXICO; USA, ALABAMA, MOBILE BAY;

EID: 0029664247     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps141229     Document Type: Article

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