Salt marshes as a source of chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) to Southern California coastal waters

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1923-1933

  Clark, Catherine D ^a   Litz, Liannea P ^a   Grant, Stanley B ^b  

^a CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEACHING; COASTAL WATER; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; HALF LIFE; PHOTODEGRADATION; RESIDENT POPULATION; SALTMARSH;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 52149095620     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2008.53.5.1923     Document Type: Article

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