Physical, chemical, and microbial regimes in an anoxic fjord (Nitinat Lake)

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1002-1017

  Pawlowicz, Rich ^a   Baldwin, Susan A ^a   Muttray, Annette ^a   Schmidtova, Jana ^a   Laval, Bernard ^a   Lamont, Grant ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; CHEMICAL PROPERTY; ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; FJORD; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; OXIC CONDITIONS; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; UPWELLING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NITINAT LAKE; NORTH AMERICA; VANCOUVER ISLAND;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 34249686573     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2007.52.3.1002     Document Type: Article

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