Brown Tide blooms in Long Island's coastal waters linked to interannual variability in groundwater flow

Global Change Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 397-410

  Laroche, Julie ^a   Nuzzi, Robert ^b   Waters, Robert ^b   Wyman, Kevin ^a   Falkowski, Paul G ^a   Wallace, Douglas W R ^a  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Patient Care Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Algal blooms; Aureococcus anophagefferens; Brown tide; Groundwater; Nitrogen

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOMS; BROWN TIDES; COASTAL WATERS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGEN; GROUNDWATER;

LONG ISLAND; NEW YORK; USA;

ALGAE; AUREOCOCCUS ANOPHAGEFFERENS;

EID: 0031402554     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2486.1997.00117.x     Document Type: Article

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