Impacts of anthropogenically influenced groundwater seepage on water chemistry and phytoplankton dynamics within a coastal marine system

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 255, Issue , 2003, Pages 101-114

  Gobler, Christopher J ^a   Boneillo, George E ^b  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Groundwater; Landfill leachate; Nutrient limitation; Nutrient ratios; Nutrients; Phytoplankton

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; EUTROPHICATION; GROUNDWATER-SEAWATER INTERACTION; LANDFILL; LEACHATE; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WATER CHEMISTRY;

NEW YORK; NORTH SEA HARBOR; UNITED STATES;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0038116173     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps255101     Document Type: Article

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