Early warning indicators for river nutrient and sediment loads in tropical seagrass beds: A benchmark from a near-pristine archipelago in Indonesia

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1512-1520

  van Katwijk, M M ^a,c   van der Welle, M E W ^a   Lucassen, E C H E T ^a   Vonk, J A ^a   Christianen, M J A ^a   Kiswara, W ^b,c   Inayat al Hakim, I ^b   Arifin, A ^b   Bouma, T J ^c   Roelofs, J G M ^a   Lamers, L P M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b INDONESIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES   (Indonesia)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Estuary; Eutrophication; Indo Pacific; SE Asia; Seagrass decline

Indexed keywords

EARLY WARNING INDICATORS; HUMAN INFLUENCES; INDO-PACIFIC; INDONESIA; KALIMANTAN; NUTRIENT LOADING; NUTRIENT LOADS; PORE WATERS; RIVER SEDIMENTS; SEAGRASS BEDS; SEAGRASS MEADOWS; SEAGRASSES; SEDIMENT LOADS; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SYSTEM VARIABLES; VARYING RIVERS; WATER COLUMNS; WATER NUTRIENT;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DEFORESTATION; EUTROPHICATION; LOADING; NUTRIENTS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TISSUE;

SEAWEED;

SURFACE WATER;

DEFORESTATION; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; ESTUARINE POLLUTION; EUTROPHICATION; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; POPULATION DECLINE; POREWATER; SEAGRASS; WATER COLUMN;

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIPHYTE; EUTROPHICATION; INDONESIA; LANDSCAPE; MACROFAUNA; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT LOADING; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PH; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT MORPHOLOGY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; RIVER; SEAGRASS; SEAGRASS COVER; SEDIMENT; SPECIES COMPOSITION; TROPICS;

AMMONIA; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INDONESIA; NITROGEN; PHOSPHATES; POACEAE; RIVERS; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WILDERNESS;

INDONESIA; KALIMANTAN;

EID: 79959348319     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.04.007     Document Type: Article

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