Temporal variations in microbenthic metabolism and inorganic nitrogen fluxes in sandy and muddy sediments of a tidally dominated bay in the northern Wadden Sea

Helgolander Meeresuntersuchungen

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 295-320

  Kristensen, E ^a   Jensen, M H ^a   Jensen, K M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREATHING; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; INORGANIC NITROGEN; MICROBE METABOLISM; NITROGEN METABOLISM; ORGANIC CARBON; OXYGEN FLUX; OXYGEN; WADDEN SEA;

BENTHOS; INORGANIC NITROGEN; METABOLISM; NITROGEN FLUX; OXYGEN FLUX; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RESPIRATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT;

WADDEN SEA;

EID: 0031448023     PISSN: 01743597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02908717     Document Type: Article

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