Breathing of a coral cay: Tracing tidally driven seawater recirculation in permeable coral reef sediments

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Santos, Isaac R ^a   Erler, Dirk ^a   Tait, Douglas ^a   Eyre, Bradley D ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); EUTROPHICATION; GROUNDWATER; LAKES; MANURES; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; PRODUCTIVITY; RADON; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CARBONATE SAND; CORAL ISLANDS; CORAL REEF; DRIVING FORCES; GROSS PRODUCTIVITY; HIGH TIDES; HYDRAULIC GRADIENTS; NATURAL TRACERS; NITRATE FLUXES; NONSTEADY STATE MODEL; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS; PORE WATERS; RECIRCULATIONS; SUBMARINE GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE; SUSTAINED PRODUCTIVITY; TIDAL PUMPING; UPWELLING RATES;

REEFS;

CARBONATE; CONVECTION; CORAL REEF; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; INFILTRATION; LAGOON; NITRATE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; POREWATER; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RADON; RECIRCULATING SYSTEM; SEAWATER; TRACER; UPWELLING;

AUSTRALIA; HERON ISLAND; QUEENSLAND;

ANTHOZOA; AVES;

EID: 78649993983     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006510     Document Type: Article

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