Eutrophication-driven deoxygenation in the coastal ocean

Oceanography

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 172-183

  Rabalais, Nancy N ^a   Cai, Wei Jun ^b   Carstens, Jacob ^c   Conley, Daniel J ^d   Fry, Brian ^e   Hu, Xinping ^f   Quiñones Rivera, Zoraida ^g   Rosenberg, Rutger ^h   Slomp, Calorine P ⁱ   Turner, R Eugene ^j   Voss, Maren ^k   Wissel, Björn ^l   Zhang, Jing ^m  

^a LOUISIANA UNIVERSITIES MARINE CONSORTIUM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

ⁱ UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^j LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^l UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^m EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84894093813     PISSN: 10428275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5670/oceanog.2014.21     Document Type: Article

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