Boundary mixing and nutrient fluxes in Mono Lake, California

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 3 I, 1999, Pages 512-529

  Macintyre, Sally ^a   Flynn, Kevin M ^a   Jellison, Robert ^a   Romero, José R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; MIXING; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS;

CALIFORNIA; LAKE MONO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032961010     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1999.44.3.0512     Document Type: Article

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