The impact of dredging deep pits on organic matter decomposition in sediments

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 237-259

  Graca, Boena ^a   Burska, Dorota ^a   Matuszewska, Katarzyna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

Author keywords

anoxic conditions; carbon; decomposition; deep pits; dredging; fluxes; nitrogen; organic matter; phosphorus; sediments

Indexed keywords

AMMONIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; ORGANIC MATTER; PITS;

CARBON; DECOMPOSITION; DEGRADATION; DENITRIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SEDIMENTS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

CARBON; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; INORGANIC COMPOUND; NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORUS;

CARBON; DECOMPOSITION; DREDGING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; PHOSPHORUS; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY;

AMMONIFICATION; ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; DECOMPOSITION; DENITRIFICATION; DREDGING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; SEDIMENT;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND; POMORSKIE; PUCK BAY; WORLD;

EID: 6344276679     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:WATE.0000044853.63461.53     Document Type: Article

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