Using submerged aquatic vegetation to establish minimum and maximum freshwater inflows to the Caloosahatchee estuary, Florida

Estuaries

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1343-1354

  Doering, Peter H ^a   Chamberlain, Robert H ^a   Haunert, Daniel E ^a  

^a SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; FRESHWATER INPUT; SALINITY TOLERANCE; SUBMERGED VEGETATION;

CALOOSAHATCHEE ESTUARY; FLORIDA; UNITED STATES;

HALODULE WRIGHTII; SAN ANGELO VIRUS; VALLISNERIA AMERICANA;

EID: 0036974742     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02692229     Document Type: Article

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