Modelling the relative impact of rivers (Scheldt/Rhine/Seine) and Western Channel waters on the nutrient and diatoms/Phaeocystis distributions in Belgian waters (Southern North Sea)

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 27, Issue 10-11, 2007, Pages 1422-1446

  Lacroix, Geneviève ^a   Ruddick, Kevin ^a   Gypens, Nathalie ^b   Lancelot, Christiane ^b  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

3D Biogeochemical model; Belgian waters; Diatoms Phaeocystis; EU; Eutrophication; Nutrient reduction; Southern North Sea

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CYST; DIATOM; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EUTROPHICATION; MODELING; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHYTOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; DOVER STRAIT; ENGLAND; ENGLISH CHANNEL; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; MEUSE RIVER; NORTH SEA; RHINE RIVER; SCHELDT RIVER; SEINE RIVER; THAMES RIVER [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COPEPODA; PHAEOCYSTIS;

EID: 34249694930     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2007.01.013     Document Type: Article

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