A percent-of-flow approach for managing reductions of freshwater inflows from unimpounded rivers to southwest Florida estuaries

Estuaries

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1318-1332

  Flannery, Michael S ^a   Peebles, Ernst B ^b   Montgomery, Ralph T ^c  

^a Southwest Florida Water Management District   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c PBS and J Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; FRESHWATER INPUT; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; PUMPING; RIVER MANAGEMENT;

FLORIDA; UNITED STATES;

ANCHOA; CYNOSCION ARENARIUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; MYSIDAE; PISCES;

EID: 0036974672     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02692227     Document Type: Article

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