Groundwater denitrification capacity and nitrous oxide flux of former fringing salt marshes filled with human-transported materials

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 295-311

  Addy, Kelly ^a   Gold, Art ^a   Stolt, Mark ^a   Donohue, Sean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Denitrification; Groundwater; Nitrogen; Nitrous oxide; Restoration; Salt marsh alteration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877019123     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-012-0266-z     Document Type: Article

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