The role of sediment denitrification in reducing groundwater-derived nitrate inputs to Nauset Marsh estuary, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Estuaries

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 245-259

  Nowicki, Barbara L ^a   Requintina, Edwin ^a   Van Keuren, Donna ^a   Portnoy, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b Cape Cod National Seashore   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENITRIFICATION; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL; WATER POLLUTION;

DENITRIFICATION; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; NITRATE; SALTMARSH; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY;

MASSACHUSETTS; NAUSET MARSH ESTUARY; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GADUS MORHUA;

EID: 0032849729     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1352981     Document Type: Article

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