Forms and availability of sediment phosphorus in carbonate sand of Bermuda seagrass beds

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 799-810

  Jensen, Henning Skovgaard ^a,d   McGlathery, Karen J ^b   Marino, Roxanne ^c   Howarth, Robert W ^c  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOAVAILABILITY; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; GEOCHEMISTRY; PHOSPHORUS; SEAGRASS MEADOW;

BERMUDA;

HALOPHILA; THALASSIA TESTUDINUM;

EID: 0031692195     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1998.43.5.0799     Document Type: Article

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