Spatial gradients in dissolved carbon due to tidal marsh outwelling into a Chesapeake Bay estuary

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 426, Issue , 2011, Pages 41-56

  Tzortziou, Maria ^a,b   Neale, Patrick J ^b   Megonigal, J Patrick ^b   Lee Pow, Crystal ^b,c   Butterworth, Megan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeochemistry; Brackish marshes; Carbon dynamics; Dissolved inorganic carbon; Dissolved organic matter; Estuarine processes; Intertidal zone; Optical properties

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ESTUARINE CHEMISTRY; MARSH; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; MARYLAND; RHODE ESTUARY; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE;

EID: 79953165725     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09017     Document Type: Article

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