Influence of small-scale patchiness on resilience of nutrient cycling to extended hypoxia in estuarine sediments

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 453, Issue , 2012, Pages 49-62

  Banks, Joanne L ^a   Jeff Ross, D ^b   Keough, Michael J ^a   MacLeod, Catriona K ^b   Eyre, Bradley D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anoxia; Benthic macrofauna; Denitrification; DNRA; Hypoxia; Organic enrichment

Indexed keywords

BIOAVAILABILITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; DECOMPOSITION; DENITRIFICATION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; EPIFAUNA; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; MACROBENTHOS; METABOLISM; METHANE; MINERALIZATION; MORTALITY; NITROGEN OXIDES; NUTRIENT CYCLING; SEDIMENT CORE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84861043475     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09686     Document Type: Article

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