Carbon cycling in a tidal freshwater marsh ecosystem: A carbon gas flux study

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 199, Issue , 2000, Pages 13-30

  Neubauer, Scott C ^a   Miller, W David ^b,c   Anderson, Iris Cofman ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^b Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Belowground respiration; Carbon dioxide; Macrophyte and microalgal productivity; Methane; Peltandra virginica; Sweet Hall marsh, Virginia; Translocation

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLING; CARBON DIOXIDE; ECOSYSTEM; METHANE; MODEL; NITROGEN METABOLISM; SEASONALITY; UNITED STATES;

BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; MACROPHYTE; MICROALGA; PRODUCTIVITY;

UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PELTANDRA VIRGINICA;

EID: 0034717719     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps199013     Document Type: Article

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