Investigating the use of macrophyte stable C and N isotopic ratios as indicators of wetland eutrophication: Patterns in the P-affected Everglades

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2380-2387

  Inglett, Patrick W ^a   Reddy, K Ramesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; EUTROPHICATION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MACROPHYTE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; WETLAND;

EVERGLADES; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CLADIUM; CLADIUM JAMAICENSE; TYPHA; TYPHA DOMINGENSIS;

EID: 33749468310     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.5.2380     Document Type: Article

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