Marine Macrophyte Wrack Inputs and Dissolved Nutrients in Beach Sands

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 839-850

  Dugan, Jenifer E ^a   Hubbard, David M ^a   Page, Henry M ^a   Schimel, Joshua P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem function; Giant kelp; Intertidal; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Pore water; Re mineralization; Sandy beach ecosystem; Surf zone; Wrack subsidy

Indexed keywords

BEACH; DISSOLVED INORGANIC NITROGEN; DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGEN; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; KELP FOREST; MACROPHYTE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHOSPHORUS; POREWATER; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REMINERALIZATION; SAND; SURF ZONE;

MACROCYSTIS; MACROCYSTIS PYRIFERA;

EID: 79958067513     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-011-9375-9     Document Type: Article

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