DOC dynamics in a small temperate estuary: Simultaneous addition and removal processes and implications on observed nonconservative behavior

Estuaries

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 604-616

  McKenna, James H ^a  

^a Williams Mystic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ESTUARY; MIXING; PHYTOPLANKTON; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

NORTH AMERICA; RHODE ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE;

EID: 4344570363     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02907648     Document Type: Article

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