Estuarine oxygen dynamics: What can we learn about hypoxia from long-time records in the Delaware Estuary?

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 535-548

  Sharp, Jonathan H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHON; ANOXIA; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; EUTROPHICATION; FINFISH; HYPOXIA; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SHELLFISH; TWENTIETH CENTURY; URBAN REGION;

DELAWARE ESTUARY; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE;

EID: 75249105040     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2010.55.2.0535     Document Type: Article

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