Spatial and temporal patterns of mineralization rates and oxygen distribution in a permeable intertidal sand flat (Sylt, Germany)

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2549-2563

  Werner, Ursula ^a   Billerbeck, Markus ^a   Polerecky, Lubos ^a   Franke, Ulrich ^a   Huettel, Markus ^a,c   Van Beusekom, Justus E E ^b   De Beer, Dirk ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MINERALIZATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PERMEABILITY; POREWATER; REDUCTION; SHORELINE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SULFATE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRISIAN ISLANDS; GERMANY; NORTH FRISIAN ISLANDS; SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN; SYLT;

EID: 33845450735     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.6.2549     Document Type: Article

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