Importance of submarine groundwater discharge as a source of nutrients for the Neuse River Estuary, North Carolina

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1027-1033

  Fear, John M ^a   Paerl, Hans W ^b   Braddy, Jeremy S ^b  

^a North Carolina Division of Coastal Management   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GROUNDWATER; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT; PHOSPHORUS; POREWATER; SEEPAGE;

NEUSE ESTUARY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 40949089634     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02841393     Document Type: Article

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