Physico-chemical and nutrient variable stratifications in the water column and in macroalgal thalli as a result of high biomass mats in a non-tidal shallow-water lagoon

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 75, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 98-104

  Lenzi, Mauro ^a   Gennaro, Paola ^b   Mercatali, Isabel ^b   Persia, Emma ^b   Solari, Duccio ^a   Porrello, Salvatore ^b  

^a Orbetello Pesca Lagunare Company   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND RESEARCH ISPRA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Eutrophication; Macroalgal mat; Macroalgal thalli; Nutrient; Shallow water; Top bottom stratification

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY GROWTH; MACROALGAL MAT; MACROALGAL THALLI; NUTRIENT CONTENTS; OPPORTUNISTIC MACROALGAE; PHYSICO-CHEMICALS; SEDIMENT NUTRIENTS; SHALLOW WATERS;

EUTROPHICATION; LAKES; SEDIMENTS;

NUTRIENTS;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; NITRATE; NITRATE AMMONIUM; NITRITE; PHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

AMMONIUM; BIOMONITORING; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; EUTROPHICATION; MACROALGA; MICROBIAL MAT; NITRATE; NITRITE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; ORTHOPHOSPHATE; PARAMETERIZATION; PH; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POLLUTION MONITORING; REDOX CONDITIONS; SALINITY; STRATIFICATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER COLUMN;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS DISTRIBUTION; EUTROPHICATION; FIELD STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; ITALY; LAGOON; MICROALGA; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CONTENT; NUTRIENT VARIABLE STRATIFICATION; PH; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SALINITY; SEAGRASS MEADOW; STRATIFICATION; TEMPERATURE; THALLUS; WATER SAMPLING;

GROSSETO [TUSCANY]; ITALY; ORBETELLO LAGOON; TUSCANY;

EID: 84884812991     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2013.07.057     Document Type: Article

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