Nutrients in estuaries - An overview and the potential impacts of climate change

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 434, Issue , 2012, Pages 213-227

  Statham, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biogeochemistry; Climate change; Estuaries; Eutrophication; Nutrients

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC INPUTS; BIO-IRRIGATION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; COASTAL STORM; COASTAL WATERS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS; ESTUARINE SYSTEMS; FLUSHING TIME; FRESHWATER INFLOW; FRESHWATER SYSTEMS; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; HIGH FREQUENCY; HOLISTIC APPROACH; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; IN-SITU; MICROBIAL ACTIVITIES; PHASE INTERACTIONS; PHYTOPLANKTON PRODUCTIVITY; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; PREDICTIVE MODELS; PROCESS UNDERSTANDING; RE-SUSPENSION; RECYCLING PROCESS; SEA LEVEL RISE; SUB-ARCTIC; SUBMARINE GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE; TIME-SCALES; WIND PATTERNS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); ESTUARIES; EUTROPHICATION; FACTOR ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL; WATER;

NUTRIENTS;

FRESH WATER; GROUND WATER; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SILICON;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ESTUARINE CHEMISTRY; EUTROPHICATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; ORGANIC NITROGEN; ORGANIC PHOSPHORUS; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ALGAL GROWTH; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BENTHOS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL WATERS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; ESTUARY; EUTROPHICATION; FLOW RATE; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HYDRODYNAMICS; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); MACRONUTRIENT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITROGEN CYCLE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CONTENT; NUTRIENT CYCLE; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; OXIDATION; PARTICLE RESUSPENSION; PERMAFROST; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEA LEVEL RISE; SPECIES TRANSLOCATION; WASTE WATER RECYCLING; WATER CYCLE; WATER FLOW; WATER SUPPLY; WIND;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ESTUARIES;

EID: 84865194805     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.09.088     Document Type: Review

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