Water Quality and Phytoplankton as Indicators of Hurricane Impacts on a Large Estuarine Ecosystem

Estuaries

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1329-1343

  Peierls, Benjamin L ^a   Christian, Robert R ^b   Paerl, Hans W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; ESTUARINE POLLUTION; FLOODING; HURRICANE; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; WATER QUALITY;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; PAMLICO SOUND; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0346336768     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02803635     Document Type: Article

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