Improving fluorometry as a source tracking method to detect human fecal contamination

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 551-561

  Hartel, Peter G ^a   McDonald, Jennifer L ^a   Gentit, Lisa C ^a   Hemmings, Sarah N J ^a   Rodgers, Karen ^a   Smith, Katy A ^a   Belcher, Carolyn N ^a   Kuntz, Robin L ^a   Rivera Torres, Yaritza ^b   Otero, Ernesto ^b   Schroder, Eduardo C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FECAL PELLET; FECES; FLUOROMETRY; GENE; ORGANIC MATTER; SAMPLING; TRACKING; WATER POLLUTION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GEORGIA; GREATER ANTILLES; MAYAGUEZ BAY; NORTH AMERICA; PUERTO RICO; SAINT SIMONS ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

AVES;

EID: 34548038382     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03036521     Document Type: Article

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