Varying stable nitrogen isotope ratios of different coastal marsh plants and their relationships with wastewater nitrogen and land use in New England, USA

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 131, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 71-81

  Wigand, Cathleen ^a   McKinney, Richard A ^a   Cole, Marci L ^b   Thursby, Glen B ^a   Cummings, Jean ^a  

^a National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory   (United States)

^b Save The Bay   (United States)

Author keywords

Buffer; Indicator; Macroalgae; Monitoring; Nitrogenloading; Phragmites australis; Spartina alterniflora; Spartina patens; Stable isotopes; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; ISOTOPES; LAND USE; NITROGEN; WASTEWATER; WATERSHEDS;

MARSH PLANTS; NITROGEN ISOTOPE;

ALGAE;

NITROGEN;

ISOTOPIC RATIO; LAND USE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PLANT; POLLUTION MONITORING; STABLE ISOTOPE; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; INDICATOR ORGANISM; LAND USE; MARSH; NONHUMAN; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PLANT ROOT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ULVA; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHED;

ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NEW ENGLAND; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PLANTS; SEWAGE; WETLANDS;

NEW ENGLAND; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

IVA FRUTESCENS; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; SPARTINA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA; SPARTINA PATENS; ULVA INTESTINALIS; ULVA LACTUCA;

EID: 34347368881     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-006-9457-5     Document Type: Article

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