Can sediment total organic carbon and grain size be used to diagnose organic enrichment in estuaries?

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 538-547

  Pelletier, Marguerite C ^a   Campbell, Daniel E ^a   Ho, Kay T ^a   Burgess, Robert M ^a   Audette, Charles T ^b   Detenbeck, Naomi E ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b Raytheon   (United States)

Author keywords

Benthos; Eutrophication; Organic carbon; Sediment; Total maximum daily load

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; ANTHROPOGENIC CONTAMINANTS; BENTHOS; CARBON ADSORPTION; CHLOROPHYLL A; CLEAN WATER ACT; COMMON SOURCE; DISSOLVED OXYGEN LEVELS; ELEVATED LEVEL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT PROGRAMS; GRAIN SIZE; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENTS; ORGANIC ENRICHMENT; OXYGEN DEPLETION; SAMPLE SIZES; SCREENING TOOL; SEDIMENT GRAIN SIZE; SEDIMENT ORGANIC CARBON; SURFACE AREA; TOTAL MAXIMUM DAILY LOAD; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TOXICITY TEST; U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; WATER COLUMNS;

ADSORPTION; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CHLOROPHYLL; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; EUTROPHICATION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; IMPURITIES; NUTRIENTS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TOXICITY; WATER POLLUTION;

ORGANIC CARBON;

CHLOROPHYLL A; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; WATER;

ADSORPTION; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BENTHOS; CHLOROPHYLL; DATA SET; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; EUTROPHICATION; GRAIN SIZE; OXYGEN; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TOXICITY; WATER COLUMN;

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ESTUARY; EUTROPHICATION; GRAIN; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SEDIMENT; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TOXICITY TESTING;

CARBON; CHLOROPHYLL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUTROPHICATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; NITROGEN; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOSPHORUS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79551606973     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.414     Document Type: Article

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