The Contribution of Groundwater Discharge to Nutrient Exports from a Coastal Catchment: Post-Flood Seepage Increases Estuarine N/P Ratios

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 56-73

  Santos, Isaac R ^a   de Weys, Jason ^a   Tait, Douglas R ^a   Eyre, Bradley D ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acid sulphate soils; Deoxygenation; Eutrophication; Permeable sediments; Submarine groundwater discharge; Subterranean estuary

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CATCHMENT; COASTAL WETLAND; COASTAL ZONE; DISCHARGE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGEN; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; FLOODPLAIN; GROUNDWATER; NITROGEN; NITROGEN COMPOUND; NUTRIENT CYCLING; OXYGENATION; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORUS; SEEPAGE; WETLAND;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; RICHMOND ESTUARY;

EID: 84871409150     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-012-9561-4     Document Type: Article

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