Nitrogen budget of Apalachicola Bay, a bar-built estuary in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 195, Issue , 2000, Pages 1-14

  Mortazavi, Behzad ^a   Iverson, Richard L ^a   Huang, Wenrui ^b   Lewis, F Graham ^c   Caffrey, Jane M ^d  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FAMU FSU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (United States)

^c District   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

DIN; DON; Estuary; F ratio; New production; Nitrogen budget

Indexed keywords

DENITRIFICATION; DISSOLVED INORGANIC NITROGEN; DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGEN; ENVIRONMENT; ESTUARY; NITROGEN BALANCE; SEASONALITY; UNITED STATES;

CIRCULATION MODELING; ESTUARY; NITROGEN;

APALACHICOLA BAY; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 0034737348     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps195001     Document Type: Article

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