Temperature controls a latitudinal gradient in the proportion of watershed nitrogen exported to coastal ecosystems

Biogeochemistry

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 333-346

  Schaefer, Sylvia C ^a   Alber, Merryl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Denitrification; Eutrophication; Nitrogen budgets; Proportionate nitrogen export; Temperature; Watersheds

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE; DENITRIFICATION; EUTROPHICATION; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT BUDGET; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATERSHED;

EID: 34547839647     PISSN: 01682563     EISSN: 1573515X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10533-007-9144-9     Document Type: Article

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