Horizontal transport and seasonal distribution of nutrients, dissolved oxygen and chlorophyll-a in the Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica: A tropical estuary

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 51-66

  Kress, Nurit ^a   Coto, Sandra Leon ^b   Brenes, Carlos L ^b   Brenner, Stephen ^a   Arroyo, Guillermo ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

85 30 84 30W; 9 30 10 30N; Costa Rica; Gulf of Nicoya; Mixing; Nutrients; Productivity; Seasonality; Tropical estuary

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL A; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUTRIENT; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 0036159482     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-4343(01)00064-4     Document Type: Article

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