Bottom-water hypoxia effects on sediment-water interface nitrogen transformations in a seasonally hypoxic, shallow bay (Corpus Christi Bay, TX, USA)

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 521-531

  McCarthy, Mark J ^a,d   McNeal, Karen S ^b   Morse, John W ^c   Gardner, Wayne S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corpus Christi Bay; Denitrification; DNRA; Hypoxia; Microelectrodes; MIMS; Sediments; Sulfide; TX; USA

Indexed keywords

CORE ANALYSIS; DENITRIFICATION; ELECTRODE; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; HYPOXIA; ION EXCHANGE; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MARINE SEDIMENT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXYGEN; SEDIMENT-WATER INTERFACE;

CORPUS CHRISTI BAY; NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 45849113267     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-008-9041-z     Document Type: Article

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