Combined nutrient-toxicant effects on a shallow-water marine sediment system: Sensitivity and resilience of ecosystem functions

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 330, Issue , 2007, Pages 13-30

  Sundbäck, Kristina ^a   Petersen, Dorthe Groth ^a,b   Dahllöf, Ingela ^b   Larson, Fredrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Copper pyrithione; Denitrification; Multiple stressors; Nitrogen; Nutrients; Oxygen; Sediment; Trophic state

Indexed keywords

DENITRIFICATION; DISSOLVED INORGANIC NITROGEN; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOOD WEB; MARINE SEDIMENT; MICROORGANISM; NITROGEN CYCLE; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PESTICIDE; SHALLOW WATER; TROPHIC STATUS;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33847216216     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps330013     Document Type: Article

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