Nitrogen turnover during the spring outflows of the nitrate-rich Curonian and Szczecin lagoons using dual nitrate isotopes

Marine Chemistry

Volumn 154, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-11

  Korth, Frederike ^a   Fry, Brian ^b   Liskow, Iris ^a   Voss, Maren ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Eutrophication; Nitrate; Nitrogen isotopes; Oxygen isotopes

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; COASTAL LAGOON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DENITRIFICATION; ESTUARINE FRONT; EUTROPHICATION; MUD; NITRATE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; OUTFLOW; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PHYTOPLANKTON; SPRING (SEASON); TURNOVER; WATER COLUMN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; CURONIAN LAGOON; NEMUNAS RIVER; ODER RIVER; POLAND; SZCZECIN LAGOON; ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE;

EID: 84878507681     PISSN: 03044203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marchem.2013.04.012     Document Type: Article

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