Ecosystem model of an estuarine submersed plant community: Calibration and simulation of eutrophication responses

Estuaries

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 457-474

  Madden, Christopher J ^a   Kemp, W Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM MODELLING; EPIPHYTE; ESTUARIES; EUTROPHICATION; EUTROPHICATION RESPONSE; HABITAT DEGRADATION; LIGHT ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; SUBMERGED VEGETATION;

EID: 0029669768     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1352463     Document Type: Article

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