The effects of multiple stressors on the balance between autotrophic and heterotrophic processes in an estuarine system

Estuaries

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 352-364

  Wiegner, Tracy N ^a,c   Seitzinger, Sybil P ^a   Breitburg, Denise L ^b   Sanders, James G ^b,d  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Estuarine Research Center   (United States)

^c STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d SKIDAWAY INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOTROPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; FOOD WEB; HETEROTROPHY; MESOCOSM; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; TRACE ELEMENT;

BIVALVIA;

EID: 0038300654     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02695973     Document Type: Article

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