Short-term response of nutrients, carbon and planktonic microbial communities to floodplain wetland inundation

Aquatic Ecology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 843-858

  Kobayashi, Tsuyoshi ^a   Ryder, Darren S ^b   Gordon, Geoff ^a   Shannon, Ian ^a   Ingleton, Timothy ^a   Carpenter, Max ^a   Jacobs, Stephen J ^a  

^a OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dissolved organic matter; Environmental flows; Floodplain inundation; Macquarie Marshes; Nitrogen; Phosphorus

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOODPLAIN; MARSH; MESOCOSM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHYTOPLANKTON;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MACQUARIE MARSHES; NEW SOUTH WALES;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 72149121327     PISSN: 13862588     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10452-008-9219-2     Document Type: Article

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