Salt marshes and eutrophication: An unsustainable outcome

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1634-1642

  Turner, R Eugene ^a   Howes, Brian L ^b   Teal, John M ^c   Milan, Charles S ^a   Swenson, Erick M ^a   Goehringer Toner, Dale D ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COASTAL ZONE; EUTROPHICATION; FLOODING; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; ORGANIC MATTER; RHIZOME; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

EID: 67949115517     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2009.54.5.1634     Document Type: Article

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