Influence of decomposing jellyfish on the sediment oxygen demand and nutrient dynamics

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 616, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 151-160

  West, Elizabeth Jane ^a   Welsh, David Thomas ^a   Pitt, Kylie Anne ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Catostylus mosaicus; Decay; Decomposition; Flux; Organic matter; Scyphozoa

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIOMASS; BLOOMS (METAL); DECAY (ORGANIC); DECOMPOSITION; DISSOLUTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN SENSORS; FLUXES; LAKES; LEACHING; NITROGEN; NONMETALS; NUTRIENTS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORUS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

BACTERIAL DECOMPOSITIONS; BOTTOM WATERS; CATOSTYLUS MOSAICUS; COASTAL LAGOONS; CONTINUOUS FLOWS; DECAY; DEGREE OF MIXING; DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGENS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC PHOSPHORUSES; IN CONTROLS; INORGANIC NUTRIENTS; MESOCOSM; MESOCOSMS; NEW SOUTH WALES , AUSTRALIA; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; NUTRIENT FLUXES; ORGANIC MATTER; PRIMARY PRODUCTIONS; SCYPHOZOA; SEDIMENT OXYGEN DEMANDS; WATER COLUMNS; WET WEIGHTS;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN;

BENTHOS; BIOMASS; COASTAL LAGOON; DECOMPOSITION; JELLYFISH; LEACHING; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARINE SEDIMENT; NUTRIENT; ORGANIC MATTER; POPULATION GROWTH;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; SMITHS LAKE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CATOSTYLUS MOSAICUS; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 57449084369     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-008-9586-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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