Organic enrichment associated with outwash from marine aggregates dredging: A probable explanation for surface sheens and enhanced benthic production in the vicinity of dredging operations

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 809-818

  Newell, R C ^a   Hitchcock, D R ^b   Seiderer, L J ^a  

^a Marine Ecological Surveys Limited   (United Kingdom)

^b Bridgend Farmhouse   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregate dredging; Organic enrichment; Sediment plume

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE; DREDGING; ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; ORGANIC MATTER; OUTWASH;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; DREDGING; ECOSYSTEM; INVERTEBRATE; POLLUTION; SEDIMENT; TRANSPORT KINETICS; WATER POLLUTION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032822256     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-326X(99)00045-4     Document Type: Article

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