Nutrient and phytoplankton dynamics in a sewage-impacted gulf coast estuary: A field test of the PEG-model and Equilibrium Resource Competition theory

Estuaries

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 725-742

  Roelke, D L ^a   Cifuentes, L A ^a   Eldridge, P M ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ESTUARY MANAGEMENT; EUTROPHICATION; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEWAGE;

NUECES ESTUARY; TEXAS; USA;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 0031471484     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1352247     Document Type: Article

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