Origins and scales of hypoxia on the Louisiana shelf: Importance of seasonal plankton dynamics and river nutrients and discharge

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 221, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1028-1042

  Eldridge, Peter M ^a   Roelke, Daniel L ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Ecosystem response; Edibility; Geochemistry; Global climate change; Hypoxia; Model; Nitrogen; Nutrients; Phosphorus; Phytoplankton; River flow; Sinking; Stoichiometry

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; HYPOXIA; NITROGEN NUTRIENT; RIVER FLOW;

ALGAE CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPETITION; ECOSYSTEMS; GEOCHEMISTRY; NITROGEN; PELLETIZING; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; RIVERS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; STOICHIOMETRY; STREAM FLOW;

NUTRIENTS;

BIOFUEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ESTUARINE CHEMISTRY; FECAL PELLET; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PREY AVAILABILITY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER FLOW; RIVER PLUME; STOICHIOMETRY; WATER COLUMN; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; LOUISIANA SHELF; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 76249109106     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.04.054     Document Type: Article

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