Modeling estuarine-shelf exchanges in a deltaic estuary: Implications for coastal carbon budgets and hypoxia

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 221, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 978-985

  Das, Anindita ^a   Justić, Dubravko ^a   Swenson, Erick ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barataria estuary; Coastal eutrophication; Ecosystem modeling; Estuarine fluxes; Gulf of Mexico; Hypoxia; Mississippi River; Wetland loss

Indexed keywords

COASTAL EUTROPHICATION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; GULF OF MEXICO; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; WETLAND LOSS;

BUDGET CONTROL; ECOSYSTEMS; EUTROPHICATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORGANIC CARBON; RIVERS; SOILS; WETLANDS;

ESTUARIES;

CARBON BUDGET; COASTAL WETLAND; COASTAL ZONE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; EUTROPHICATION; HYPOXIA; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; ORGANIC CARBON;

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

EID: 76249120698     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.01.023     Document Type: Article

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