Acute disturbance of lake pontchartrain benthic communities by Hurricane Katrina

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1221-1228

  Poirrier, Michael A ^a   Del Rey, Zoe Rodriguez ^a   Spalding, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

Author keywords

Benthic; Bivalve; Hurricane effects; Hypoxia; Invertebrate; Rangia cuneata; Saltwater intrusion

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BIVALVE; CHLOROPHYLL A; COLONIZATION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HURRICANE KATRINA 2005; HYPOXIA; INVERTEBRATE; SALINE INTRUSION; SALINITY; TURBIDITY;

LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN; LOUISIANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BIVALVIA; INVERTEBRATA; RANGIA; RANGIA CUNEATA;

EID: 55649110465     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-008-9103-2     Document Type: Article

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