Relating precipitation and water management to nutrient concentrations in the oligotrophic "upside-down" estuaries of the Florida Everglades

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 1 II, 2006, Pages 602-616

  Childers, Daniel L ^a   Boyer, Joseph N ^a   Davis, Stephen E ^b   Madden, Christopher J ^c   Rudnick, David T ^c   Sklar, Fred H ^d  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT   (United States)

^d EVERGLADES DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHOSPHORUS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; GULF OF MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 32944462006     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.1_part_2.0602     Document Type: Conference Paper

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