A mass- and isotope-balance model of DOC mixing in estuaries

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1872-1882

  Cifuentes, Luis A ^a   Eldridge, Peter M ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Aquatic Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MASS BALANCE; MIXING; MODELING;

ALGAE; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0032412158     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1998.43.8.1872     Document Type: Article

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