Effect of salmon cage aquaculture on the pelagic environment of temperate coastal waters: Seasonal changes in nutrients and microbial community

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 361, Issue , 2008, Pages 47-58

  Navarro, Nuria ^a,b   Leakey, Raymond J G ^a   Black, Kenneth D ^a  

^a SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Chlorophyll; Fish farm; Nutrients; Plankton community

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; AUTOTROPHY; CAGE CULTURE; CHLOROPHYLL; COASTAL WATER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FJORD; HETEROTROPHY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; ORGANIC NITROGEN; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PIGMENT; SALMONID CULTURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

ARGYLL AND BUTE; EURASIA; EUROPE; LOCH FYNE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 47149116210     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07357     Document Type: Article

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