The role of the seagrass Posidonia oceanica in the cycling of trace elements

Biogeosciences

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2497-2507

  Sanz Lazaro C ^a,b,c   Malea, P ^d   Apostolaki, E T ^b,e   Kalantzi, I ^b   Marin A ^a   Karakassis, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^e INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CHEMICAL MASS BALANCE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DECOMPOSITION; DETRITUS; EPIPHYTE; SEAGRASS; SEAGRASS MEADOW; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRACE ELEMENT; TRANSLOCATION; TROPHIC LEVEL;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

POSIDONIA OCEANICA;

EID: 84872470138     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-9-2497-2012     Document Type: Article

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