Quantifying groundwater discharge through fringing wetlands to estuaries: Seasonal variability, methods comparison, and implications for wetland-estuary exchange

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 604-615

  Tobias, Craig R ^a,c   Harvey, Judson W ^b   Anderson, Iris C ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE; ESTUARY; GROUNDWATER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WETLAND;

EID: 0035038408     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2001.46.3.0604     Document Type: Article

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