Denitrification in the river estuaries of the northern Baltic Sea

Ambio

Volumn 36, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 134-140

  Silvennoinen, Hanna ^a   Hietanen, Susanna ^b   Liikanen, Anu ^a   Stange, C Florian ^c   Russow, Rolf ^c   Kuparinen, Jorma ^b   Martikainen, Pertti J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAY; DENITRIFICATION; ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NITROGEN; RESIDENCE TIME; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

ARCHIPELAGO SEA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; BOTHNIAN BAY; GULF OF BOTHNIA; GULF OF FINLAND;

EID: 34250667337     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2007)36[134:DITREO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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57. We thank F.M. Mika Visuri from the Finnish Environmental Centre for his valuable help in sediment sampling and Mr. Bernd Apelt for his assistance in laboratory work. Paula Väänänen (SYKE) and Jaana Rintala (North Osthrobothnia Regional Environmental Centre) are acknowledged for the maps and Antti Räike (SYKE) for the loading data of the estuaries. This study was funded by the Academy of Finland's BIREME programme for the COASTGAS (Academy of Finland decision number 202429) and the SEGUE consortium, project SEGUE-N (Academy of Finland decision number 202444). H.S. received funding also from the Graduate School of Environmental Science and Technology (EnSTe).