Long-Term Effects of Adding Nutrients to an Oligotrophic Coastal Environment

Ecosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 430-444

  Armitage, Anna R ^a,b   Frankovich, Thomas A ^a   Fourqurean, James W ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT GALVESTON   (United States)

Author keywords

aboveground and belowground biomass; epiphyte; eutrophication; macroalgae; nutrient; press; pulse; ramp disturbances; seagrass

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; MACROALGA; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOMASS; PROPAGULE; SEAGRASS; SUCCESSION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; FLORIDA BAY; UNITED STATES;

HALODULE; HALODULE WRIGHTII; THALASSIA; THALASSIA TESTUDINUM;

EID: 79953230412     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-011-9421-2     Document Type: Article

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