North-eastern Aegean sea: An effort to estimate steady-state N & P budgets during September 1998

Mediterranean Marine Science

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 43-54

  Krasakopoulou, E ^a   Zervakis, V ^a   Souvermezoglou, E ^a   Georgopoulos, D ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

North aegean sea; Nutrient budgets; Stoichiometric calculations

Indexed keywords

EID: 54049103743     PISSN: 1108393X     EISSN: 17916763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12681/mms.257     Document Type: Article

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