Water column oxygen demand and sediment oxygen flux: Patterns of oxygen depletion in tidal creeks

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 586, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 235-248

  MacPherson, Tara A ^a   Cahoon, Lawrence B ^b   Mallin, Michael A ^b  

^a NC Department of the Environment and Natural Resources   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

BOD; Dissolved oxygen; Sediments; Tidal creeks

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CHLOROPHYLL; COASTAL ZONES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DATA ACQUISITION; NUTRIENTS; SEDIMENTS; WATER;

ORGANIC SESTON LOADS; SEDIMENT OXYGEN FLUX (SOF); WATER DISCHARGES;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHLOROPHYLL; COASTAL ZONE; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GAS TRANSPORT; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RUNOFF; SESTON; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; WATER COLUMN;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34249016068     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-007-0643-4     Document Type: Article

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