Historical storage budgets of organic carbon, nutrient and contaminant elements in saltmarsh sediments: Biogeochemical context for managed realignment, Humber Estuary, UK

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 405, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 1-13

  Andrews, J E ^a   Samways, G ^c   Shimmield, G B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Carbon; Geochemistry; Humber Estuary; Managed realignment; Metals; Nutrients

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC CARBON; PHOTOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTATION; WETLANDS;

CARBON; GEOCHEMISTRY; HUMBER ESTUARY; MANAGED REALIGNMENT; METALS; NUTRIENTS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY;

ARSENIC; CESIUM 137; COPPER; LEAD; METAL; NIOBIUM; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; ZINC;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CESIUM ISOTOPE; CHRONOLOGY; HISTORICAL RECORD; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LAND RECLAMATION; NIOBIUM; NUTRIENT BUDGET; ORGANIC NITROGEN; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHORUS; PROGRADATION; SALTMARSH; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CALCULATION; CHRONOLOGY; CONTAMINATION; ESTUARY; INTERTIDAL ZONE; NUTRIENT; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALT MARSH; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; TOPOGRAPHY; UNITED KINGDOM;

CARBON; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GREAT BRITAIN; METALS, HEAVY; NIOBIUM; PLANTS; WETLANDS;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUMBER ESTUARY; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 53149134635     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.07.044     Document Type: Article

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