Effects of landscape variables and season on reference water chemistry of coastal marshes in eastern Georgian Bay

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1009-1023

  deCatanzaro, Rachel ^a   Chow Fraser, Patricia ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DRAINAGE BASIN; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; IONIC COMPOSITION; MARSH; NITRATE; OCEAN COLOR; PH; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SNOWMELT; SUSPENDED LOAD; WATER CHEMISTRY;

CANADA; GEORGIAN BAY; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 79960614276     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: 12057533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/f2011-035     Document Type: Article

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