Addition of dissolved nitrogen and dissolved organic carbon from wild fish faeces and food around Mediterranean fish farms: Implications for waste-dispersal models

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 340, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 160-168

  Fernandez Jover, Damian ^a   Sanchez Jerez, Pablo ^a   Bayle Sempere, Just ^a   Carratala, Adoracion ^a   Leon, Victor M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ammonium; Aquaculture; Dissolved organic matter; Farm waste dispersal; Leaching; Wild fish

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM; AQUACULTURE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; FECES; FISH; LEACHING; NITROGEN; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; WILD POPULATION;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

BOOPS BOOPS; MUGIL CEPHALUS; TRACHINOTUS OVATUS; TRACHURUS MEDITERRANEUS;

EID: 33845389114     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2006.09.001     Document Type: Article

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