Summer nitrate uptake and denitrification in an upper Mississippi River backwater lake: The role of rooted aquatic vegetation

Biogeochemistry

Volumn 104, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 309-324

  Kreiling, Rebecca M ^a   Richardson, William B ^a   Cavanaugh, Jennifer C ^b   Bartsch, Lynn A ^a  

^a UPPER MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b USDA NRCS   (United States)

Author keywords

Assimilation; Denitrification; Mississippi River; Nitrate uptake; Vegetated backwater

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION EFFICIENCY; BACKWATER; DENITRIFICATION; EPIPHYTE; EUTROPHICATION; FLOODPLAIN; MACROPHYTE; MESOCOSM; NITRATE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RIVER CHANNEL; SUMMER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EPIPHYTON;

EID: 79957825370     PISSN: 01682563     EISSN: 1573515X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10533-010-9503-9     Document Type: Article

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