Environmental effects of dredging on sediment nutrients, carbon and granulometry in a tropical estuary

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 127, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 1-13

  Nayar, Sasi ^a   Miller, D J ^b   Hunt, A ^c   Goh, B P L ^d   Chou, L M ^e  

^a SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b Government of South Australia   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Dredging; Inorganic carbon; Nutrients; Organic carbon; Pollution; Ponggol estuary; Resuspension; Sediment grain size; Sediment surface area

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ESTUARIES; NUTRIENTS; SEDIMENTS;

GRANULOMETRY; SEDIMENT GRAIN SIZE; SEDIMENT NUTRIENTS; SEDIMENT SURFACE AREA; TROPICAL ESTUARY;

DREDGING;

AMMONIA; INORGANIC COMPOUND; NITRATE; NITRITE; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHATE;

DREDGING; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GRAIN SIZE; GRANULOMETRY; NITRITE; PHOSPHATE; RESUSPENSION; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

ARTICLE; CLAY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DREDGING; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ESTUARY; SEDIMENT; SINGAPORE; SUSPENSION; TROPICS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTION;

CARBON; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PARTICLE SIZE; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

ASIA; EURASIA; PONGGOL ESTUARY; SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA]; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 33847616584     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-006-9253-2     Document Type: Article

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