Nutrient and oxygen concentrations within the sediments of an Alaskan beach polluted with the Exxon Valdez oil spill

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 7418-7424

  Boufadel, Michel C ^a   Sharifi, Youness ^a   Van Aken, Benoit ^a   Wrenn, Brian A ^b   Lee, Kenneth ^c  

^a Temple University   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

^c BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACKGROUND CONCENTRATION; EXXON VALDEZ OIL SPILL; LIMITING FACTORS; MAJOR FACTORS; MICROBIAL OIL; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS; OIL BIODEGRADATION; OPTIMAL VALUES; OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; OXYGEN LEVELS;

BEACHES; BIODEGRADATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DEGRADATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NUTRIENTS; OIL SPILLS;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; SEA WATER;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BEACH; BIODEGRADATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DENITRIFICATION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; MARINE POLLUTION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITRATE; NUTRIENT; OIL SPILL; SALINITY; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TRANSECT;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; DENITRIFICATION; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; OIL SPILL; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; SEA POLLUTION; SEASHORE; UNITED STATES; WATER SAMPLING;

ALASKA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; OXYGEN; PETROLEUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77957353045     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es102046n     Document Type: Article

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