Impacts of diverted freshwater on dissolved organic matter and microbial communities in Barataria Bay, Louisiana, U.S.A.

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 248-257

  Bianchi, Thomas S ^a   Cook, Robert L ^b   Perdue, E Michael ^c   Kolic, Paulina E ^b   Green, Nelson ^c   Zhang, Yaoling ^c   Smith, Richard W ^a   Kolker, Alexander S ^d   Ameen, Alex ^d   King, Gary ^e   Ojwang, Loice M ^b   Schneider, Caroline L ^b   Normand, Anna E ^b   Hetland, Robert ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d LOUISIANA UNIVERSITIES MARINE CONSORTIUM   (United States)

^e Department of Biological Sciences ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Absorbance; Bacterioplankton; Deepwater Horizon; Dissolved organic carbon; Fluorescence; Freshwater diversion; Gulf of Mexico

Indexed keywords

ABSORBANCES; BACTERIOPLANKTONS; DEEPWATER; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; GULF OF MEXICO;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; DISSOLUTION; FLOOD CONTROL; FLUORESCENCE; OIL SPILLS; RIVER DIVERSION; STREAM FLOW; WATER SUPPLY;

ORGANIC CARBON;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; RIVER WATER;

ABSORBANCE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; ESTUARINE POLLUTION; FLUORESCENCE; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OIL SPILL; OIL SPILL RESPONSE; WATER MASS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ESTUARY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; RADIATION ABSORPTION; SALINITY; SAMPLING; SEASONAL VARIATION; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA; BAYS; CARBON; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLUORESCENCE; FRESH WATER; LOUISIANA; OXYGEN; PETROLEUM POLLUTION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SALINITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; TEMPERATURE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BARATARIA BAY; LOUISIANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 82755189279     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: 18790291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2011.09.007     Document Type: Article

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