Water level fluctuation and sediment-water nutrient exchange in Great Lakes coastal wetlands

Journal of Great Lakes Research

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 766-775

  Steinman, Alan D ^a   Ogdahl, Mary E ^a   Weinert, Maggie ^a   Thompson, Kurt ^a   Cooper, Matthew J ^b   Uzarski, Donald G ^c  

^a GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal wetlands; Phosphorus; Sediment water nutrient exchange; Water levels

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS; COASTAL WETLANDS; GREAT LAKES COASTAL WETLANDS; HIGH WATER; INFLUENCE OF WATER; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LAKE MICHIGAN; MICHIGAN; NUTRIENT EXCHANGE; NUTRIENT FLUXES; OVERLYING WATER; RELEASE RATE; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT INCUBATIONS; SOLUBLE REACTIVE PHOSPHORUS; SYSTEM LEVELS; WATER DEPTH; WATER-LEVEL FLUCTUATION;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; CLIMATE CHANGE; LAKES; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; WATER LEVELS; WETLANDS;

SEDIMENTS;

AMMONIUM; COASTAL WETLAND; NITRATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOSPHORUS; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; WATER DEPTH; WATER LEVEL;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE HURON; LAKE MICHIGAN;

EID: 84869863630     PISSN: 03801330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jglr.2012.09.020     Document Type: Article

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