Hypoxic events stimulate nitrogen recycling in a shallow salt-wedge estuary: The Yarra River estuary, Australia

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1427-1442

  Roberts, Keryn L ^a   Eate, Vera M ^a   Eyre, Bradley D ^b   Holland, Daryl P ^a   Cook, Perran L M ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIA; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; HYPOXIA; MINERALIZATION; NITRATE; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; OXYGEN; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT CORE; WATER COLUMN;

AUSTRALIA; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA]; YARRA ESTUARY;

EID: 84873377236     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2012.57.5.1427     Document Type: Article

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