Nutrient fluxes and sulfur cycling in the organic-rich sediment of Makirina Bay (Central Dalmatia, Croatia)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 327, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 265-284

  Lojen, Sonja ^a   Ogrinc, Nives ^a   Dolenec, Tadej ^b   Vokal, Barbara ^b   Szaran, Janina ^c   Mihelčić, Goran ^d   Branica, Marko ^d  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c MARIA CURIE SK ODOWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Benthic flux; Nutrients; Sedimentary organic matter; Stable isotope; Sulfur

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; DIFFUSION; EXTRACTION; IRRIGATION; ISOTOPES; SULFUR;

DIAGENETIC MODELS; INCUBATION; SULFATE REDUCTION;

SEDIMENTATION;

AMMONIA; CALCIUM CARBONATE; NITRATE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; ORGANOSULFUR DERIVATIVE; PYRITE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STABLE ISOTOPE; SULFATE; SULFUR; WATER;

BENTHIC FLUX; COASTAL SEDIMENT; NUTRIENT BUDGET; ORGANIC MATTER; STABLE ISOTOPE; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; SULFUR CYCLE;

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIOTURBATION; CROATIA; DECOMPOSITION; DISSOLUTION; EXTRACTION; INCUBATION TIME; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NUTRIENT; OXIDATION; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; SEDIMENT; WATER SAMPLING;

AMMONIA; CARBON; COLORIMETRY; CROATIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITRATES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SULFUR ISOTOPES; TIME FACTORS;

DALMATIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 2542548836     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2004.01.011     Document Type: Article

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