Coastal land loss and hypoxia: The 'outwelling' hypothesis revisited

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Das, Anindita ^a   Justic, Dubravko ^a   Swenson, Erick ^a   Turner, R Eugene ^a   Inoue, Masamichi ^a   Park, Dongho ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Pukyong National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

carbon budgets; coastal ecosystems; ecological modeling; Gulf of Mexico; hypoxia; wetlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960317279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/2/025001     Document Type: Article

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