Long-term change in dissolved inorganic nutrients in the heterotrophic Scheldt estuary (Belgium, The Netherlands)

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 1 II, 2006, Pages 409-423

  Soetaert, Karline ^a   Middelburg, Jack J ^a   Heip, Carlo ^a   Meire, Patrick ^b   Van Damme, Stefan ^b   Maris, Tom ^b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED INORGANIC NITROGEN; DISSOLVED INORGANIC PHOSPHORUS; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; EUTROPHICATION; LONG-TERM CHANGE; SILICATE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE; WESTERSCHELDE;

EID: 32944482192     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.1_part_2.0409     Document Type: Conference Paper

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