Isotopic compositions of lipid biomarker compounds in estuarine plants and surface sediments

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1570-1583

  Canuel, Elizabeth A ^a   Freeman, Katherine H ^b   Wakeham, Stuart G ^c  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SKIDAWAY INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); JUNCUS ROEMERIANUS; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA; TRACHEOPHYTA; ZOSTERA MARINA;

EID: 0031420020     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1997.42.7.1570     Document Type: Article

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