Interactions of ultraviolet-B radiation, mixing, and biological activity on photobleaching of natural chromophoric dissolved organic matter: A mesocosm study

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 278-291

  Whitehead, Robert F ^a   De Mora, Stephen ^a   Demers, Serge ^a   Gosselin, Michel ^a   Monfort, Patrick ^b   Mostajir, Behzad ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE LA MER DE RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; LIGHT EFFECT; MESOCOSM; MIXING; PLANKTON; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION;

CANADA; QUEBEC; SAINT LAWRENCE ESTUARY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0034013766     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2000.45.2.0278     Document Type: Article

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