Linking light attenuation and suspended sediment loading to benthic productivity within an arctic kelp-bed community

Journal of Phycology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 853-863

  Aumack, Craig F ^a   Dunton, Kenneth H ^a   Burd, Adrian B ^b   Funk, Dale W ^c   Maffione, Robert A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c LGL Alaska Research Associates Inc   (United States)

^d Hydro Optics Biology and Instrumentation Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

Boulder Patch; Inherent optical properties (IOPs); Kelp; Laminaria solidungula; Stefansson Sound; Total suspended sediments (TSS)

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; LAMINARIA; LAMINARIA SOLIDUNGULA;

EID: 34848883400     PISSN: 00223646     EISSN: 15298817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2007.00383.x     Document Type: Article

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