Development of a process-based nitrogen mass balance model for a Virginia (USA) Spatrina alterniflora salt marsh: Implications for net DIN flux

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 159, Issue , 1997, Pages 13-27

  Anderson, Iris Cofman ^a   Tobias, Craig R ^a   Neikirk, Betty Berry ^a   Wetzel, Richard L ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

DIN flux; Immobilization; Mineralization; Nitrification denitrification; Nitrogen cycling; Salt marsh

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM; DISSOLVED INORGANIC NITROGEN; MASS BALANCE MODEL; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; SALTMARSH;

USA; VIRGINIA;

POACEAE; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA; SPATRINA; SPATRINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 0031590591     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps159013     Document Type: Article

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