Groundwater-surface water exchange in a mangrove tidal creek: Evidence from natural geochemical tracers and implications for nutrient budgets

Marine Chemistry

Volumn 156, Issue , 2013, Pages 27-37

  Gleeson, Justin ^a   Santos, Isaac R ^a   Maher, Damien T ^a   Golsby Smith, Lindsay ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon; Estuary; Permeable sediments; Subterranean estuaries; Tidal pumping

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGEN; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; MANGROVE; MASS BALANCE; NUTRIENT BUDGET; PUMPING; RADIUM ISOTOPE; RADON ISOTOPE; TIDAL CYCLE; WATER FLOW;

AUSTRALIA; KANGAROO ISLAND; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 84883053206     PISSN: 03044203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marchem.2013.02.001     Document Type: Article

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