Salinity and fish effects on Salton Sea microecosystems: Water chemistry and nutrient cycling

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 381, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 105-128

  González, Maria R ^a   Hart, Cheryl M ^b   Verfaillie, Joseph R ^b   Hurlbert, Stuart H ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artemia franciscana; Fish; Gammarus mucronatus; Grazing; Ionic composition; Microcosms; Nitrogen; Nutrients; Oreochromis mossambicus; Oxygen; pH; Phosphorus; Saline lakes; Salinity; Salton Sea; Silicon

Indexed keywords

FISH; NUTRIENT CYCLING; SALINE LAKE; SALINITY; WATER CHEMISTRY;

UNITED STATES;

OREOCHROMIS MOSSAMBICUS;

EID: 0032433724     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1003227624686     Document Type: Article

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