High-resolution carbon budgets on a Palau back-reef modulated by interactions between hydrodynamics and reef metabolism

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1851-1870

  Teneva, L ^a   Dunbar, R B ^a   Mucciarone, D A ^a   Dunckley, J F ^b   Koseff, J R ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; BENTHOS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CALCIFICATION; CALCITE; CARBON BUDGET; CORAL; DIEL VARIATION; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; HYDRODYNAMICS; REEF; WATER MASS;

CAROLINE ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST); PALAU;

EID: 84897086592     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2013.58.5.1851     Document Type: Article

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