Coupling of near-bottom seston and surface sediment composition: Changes with nutrient enrichment and implications for estuarine food supply and biogeochemical processing

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 97-105

  Carmichael, R H ^a,b   Valiela, I ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY MARINE PROGRAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; COUPLING; FOOD SUPPLY; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; SEDIMENT; SESTON;

ALGAE; GADUS MORHUA;

EID: 13444266492     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2005.50.1.0097     Document Type: Article

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