Seasonal fluctuations of nutrients in a hypersaline Mediterranean lagoon

Desalination

Volumn 224, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 271-279

  Diamantopoulou, E ^a   Dassenakis, M ^a   Kastritis, A ^a   Tomara, V ^a   Paraskevopoulou, V ^a   Poulos, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Corfu; Eutrophication; Lagoon; Nitrogen; Nutrients; Phosphorous

Indexed keywords

CARBON; EUTROPHICATION; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; SAMPLING; WATER WELLS; WEATHERING;

TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; WATER EXCHANGE;

WATER POLLUTION;

CARBON; EUTROPHICATION; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; SAMPLING; WATER POLLUTION; WATER WELLS; WEATHERING;

COASTAL LAGOON; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; EUTROPHICATION; HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT; PHOSPHORUS; SALT WATER; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

CORFU; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; IONIAN ISLANDS; IONIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 38849119616     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2007.07.004     Document Type: Article

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