Natural methyl bromide and methyl chloride emissions from coastal salt marshes

Nature

Volumn 403, Issue 6767, 2000, Pages 292-295

  Rhew, Robert C ^a   Miller, Benjamin R ^a   Welss, Ray F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYL BROMIDE; METHYL CHLORIDE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; COASTAL WETLAND; METHYL BROMIDE; SALTMARSH;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; BIOMASS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; OXIDATION; OZONE LAYER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASHORE; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRATOSPHERE; VEGETATION;

ATMOSPHERE; BIOMASS; CALIFORNIA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ECOSYSTEM; HYDROCARBONS, BROMINATED; METHYL CHLORIDE; SEASONS; SOIL; WATER;

FUNGI;

EID: 0034688162     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35002043     Document Type: Article

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