Analysis of the Chesapeake Bay hypoxia regime shift: Insights from two simple mechanistic models

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 629-639

  Liu, Yong ^a,b   Scavia, Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chesapeake Bay; Conversion efficiency; Hypoxia; Mechanistic model; Regime shift

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955114964     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-009-9251-z     Document Type: Article

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