The effect of groundwater seepage on nutrient delivery and seagrass distribution in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico

Estuaries

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1033-1040

  Rutkowski, Christine M ^a,b   Burnett, William C ^b   Iverson, Richard L ^b   Chanton, Jeffrey P ^b  

^a FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER FLOW; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; SEAGRASS; SEEPAGE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

GULF OF MEXICO;

HALOPHILA;

EID: 0033368293     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1353081     Document Type: Article

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