Predicting carbon and nutrient transformations in tidal freshwater wetlands of the Hudson River

Ecosystems

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 790-802

  Arrigoni, Alicia ^a,b   Findlay, Stuart ^c   Fischer, David ^c   Tockner, Klement ^a,d,e  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^e FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dissolved organic carbon; Dissolved oxygen; Ecosystem process; Environmental heterogeneity; Nutrients; Retention; Tidal marsh

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HETEROGENEITY; MARSH; NUTRIENT CYCLING; RIVER WATER; WATER EXCHANGE;

HUDSON RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 51249084369     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-008-9161-0     Document Type: Article

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