Evolving Paradigms and Challenges in Estuarine and Coastal Eutrophication Dynamics in a Culturally and Climatically Stressed World

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 243-258

  Paerl, Hans W ^a   Hall, Nathan S ^a   Peierls, Benjamin L ^a   Rossignol, Karen L ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Coastal eutrophication; Hydrodynamics; Nitrogen; Nutrient limitation; Phosphorus; Phytoplankton

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTURAL CHANGE; ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; EUTROPHICATION; FINFISH; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYPOXIA; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PARADIGM SHIFT; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SHELLFISH;

NEUSE ESTUARY; NEW RIVER ESTUARY; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; EMBRYOPHYTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84898057465     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-014-9773-x     Document Type: Article

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