Coastal eutrophication thresholds: A matter of sediment microbial processes

Ambio

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 303-308

  Lehtoranta, Jouni ^a   Ekholm, Petri ^a   Pitkänen, Heikki ^a  

^a FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRIC ION; FERRIC OXIDE; IRON DERIVATIVE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SEA WATER; SULFATE;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; COASTAL ZONE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CYANOBACTERIUM; DOMINANCE; EUTROPHICATION; FLUX MEASUREMENT; GAS EXCHANGE; GROWTH RATE; HYDRODYNAMICS; IRON; MARINE SEDIMENT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MINERALIZATION; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; ORGANIC CARBON; OXIDE; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SALINITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SULFATE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THRESHOLD;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EUTROPHICATION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SEA; SEDIMENT;

EUTROPHICATION; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; IRON COMPOUNDS; NITROGEN; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOSPHORUS; SEAWATER; SULFATES;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA;

EID: 77649244032     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/09-A-656.1     Document Type: Article

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