Salt marsh plants carbon storage in a temperate Atlantic estuary illustrated by a stable isotopic analysis based approach

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 32, Issue , 2013, Pages 305-311

  Couto, T ^a   Duarte, B ^b   Cacador I ^b   Baeta, A ^a   Marques, J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Carbon storage; Estuaries; Salt marsh plants; Stable carbon isotope

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND ORGANS; CARBON CONCENTRATIONS; CARBON STORAGE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; SALT MARSHES; SEDIMENTARY ORGANIC MATTER; STABLE CARBON ISOTOPES;

ESTUARIES; ISOTOPES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; WETLANDS;

CARBON;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MONOCOTYLEDON; ORGANIC MATTER; SALTMARSH; SEASONAL VARIATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

SCHOENOPLECTUS MARITIMUS; SPARTINA MARITIMA; ZOSTERA NOLTII;

EID: 84876964151     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2013.04.004     Document Type: Article

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