Influence of fish food and faecal pellets on short-term oxygen uptake, ammonium flux and acid volatile sulphide accumulation in sediments impacted by fish farming and non-impacted sediments

Aquaculture Research

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 66-74

  Piedecausa, María A ^a   Aguado Giménez, Felipe ^a   Cerezo Valverde, Jesús ^a   Hernández Llorente, María D ^a   García García, Benjamín ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MURCIANO DE INVESTIGACIÓN Y DESARROLLO AGRARIO Y ALIMENTARIO IMIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acid volatile sulphides; Aquaculture; Sediment oxygen uptake; Total ammonia nitrogen; Wastes; Water sediment flux

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM; AQUACULTURE; BACTERIUM; BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; COLONIZATION; FECES; FOOD INTAKE; INOCULATION; METABOLISM; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PERCIFORM; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT CORE; SULFIDE; VOLATILE SUBSTANCE; WASTE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SPARUS AURATA;

EID: 83655172483     PISSN: 1355557X     EISSN: 13652109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2109.2011.02801.x     Document Type: Article

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