Phytoplankton index of biotic integrity for Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 598-616

  Lacouture, Richard V ^a   Johnson, Jacqueline M ^b   Buchanan, Claire ^c   Marshall, Harold G ^d  

^a Estuarine Research Center   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin   (United States)

^d OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED INORGANIC NITROGEN; HABITAT QUALITY; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; ORTHOPHOSPHATE; PHYTOPLANKTON; TRIBUTARY; WATER DEPTH;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33749620390     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02784285     Document Type: Article

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