Effect of oxygen on the degradability of organic matter in subtidal and intertidal sediments of the North Sea area

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 215, Issue , 2001, Pages 13-22

  Dauwe, B ^a   Middelburg, J J ^a   Herman, P M J ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Degradation; Intertidal; North Sea; Organic matter; Oxygen; Sediments

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGEN;

NORTH SEA;

EID: 0035978281     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps215013     Document Type: Article

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