Impacts of temperature and nutrients on coastal lagoon plant communities

Estuaries

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 765-776

  Bintz, Joanne C ^a   Nixon, Scott W ^b   Buckley, Betty A ^b   Granger, Stephen L ^b  

^a NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL LAGOON; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; TEMPERATURE;

NINIGRET LAGOON; POINT JUDITH LAGOON; RHODE ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

CLADOPHORA SERICEA; ENTEROMORPHA FLEXUOSA; ULVA FLEXUOSA; ZOSTERA MARINA;

EID: 0041322940     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02711987     Document Type: Article

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