Short-term variability of water quality parameters in two shallow estuaries of North Carolina

Estuaries

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 814-823

  Hubertz, E D ^a   Cahoon, L B ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER QUALITY;

NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032745080     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1353114     Document Type: Article

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