Environmental monitoring and assessment program: Current status of Virginian Province (U.S.) estuaries

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-25

  Strobel, Charles J ^a   Buffum, Henry W ^b   Benyi, Sandra J ^a   Paul, John F ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological assessment; EMAP; Environmental monitoring; Estuaries

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING;

ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; OXYGEN; RIVER POLLUTION; SEDIMENTS; SOIL POLLUTION; TOXICITY; WATER QUALITY;

ESTUARIES;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN;

COASTAL WATERS; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARY;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; SALINITY; SEDIMENT; SUMMER; TOXICITY; UNITED STATES; WATER QUALITY;

UNITED STATES;

GADUS MORHUA;

EID: 0032965294     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005911822444     Document Type: Article

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