Nutrient and suspended matter discharge by tributaries into the Berre Lagoon (France): The contribution of flood events to the matter budget

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 340, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 233-244

  Gouze, Emma ^a   Raimbault, Patrick ^a   Garcia, Nicole ^a   Bernard, Guillaume ^b   Picon, Philippe ^b  

^a STATION MARINE D ENDOUME   (France)

^b Groupement d'intérêt public pour la réhabilitation de l'étang de Berre ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Berre Lagoon; Floods; Fluxes; France; Mediterranean; Nutrients; Rivers; Suspended matter

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; DISCHARGE; EUTROPHICATION; FLOOD; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT; LAGOON; NITRATE; NUTRIENT; PHOSPHATE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TRIBUTARY;

BOUCHES DU RHONE; ETANG DE BERRE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; PROVENCE-ALPES-COTE D'AZUR; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 41449086116     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2007.12.007     Document Type: Article

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