Tidal nitrogen exchanges across a freshwater wetland succession gradient in the Upper Cooper River, South Carolina

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 989-1006

  McKellar Jr , H N ^a,b   Tufford, D L ^b   Alford, M C ^b   Saroprayogi, P ^b   Kelley, B J ^c   Morris, J T ^b  

^a SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c THE CITADEL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGRAPHY; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITROGEN; SUCCESSION; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION; WETLAND;

COOPER ESTUARY; COOPER RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 40949104735     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02841390     Document Type: Article

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