Seasonal and long-term trends in the water quality of Florida Bay (1989-1997)

Estuaries

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 417-430

  Boyer, Joseph N ^a   Fourqurean, James W ^a   Jones, Ronald D ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER QUALITY;

FLORIDA; FLORIDA BAY; UNITED STATES;

HALOPHILA; TRIXIS;

EID: 0032848012     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1353208     Document Type: Article

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