Budget Analyses of Estuarine Ecosystems

Estuarine Ecology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 443-464

  Boynton, Walter R ^a   Nixon, Scott W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

"big errors" avoidance in budget analyses, central; Budget analyses of estuarine ecosystems; Errors in mass and energy balance models; Estuarine "hotspot" for nutrient loss; Mass balance approaches for estuarine function

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855238965     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118412787.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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