Impacts of Climate-Related Drivers on the Benthic Nutrient Filter in a Shallow Photic Estuary

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 37, Issue S1, 2014, Pages 46-62

  Anderson, Iris C ^a   Brush, Mark J ^a   Piehler, Michael F ^b   Currin, Carolyn A ^c   Stanhope, Jennifer W ^a   Smyth, Ashley R ^b   Maxey, Johnathan D ^a   Whitehead, Meaghan L ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

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

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benthic filter; Benthic metabolism; Climate; Denitrification; Microphytobenthos; Nitrogen fixation; Remineralization; Shallow photic estuary

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; DENITRIFICATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; EUTROPHICATION; HETEROTROPHY; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; METABOLISM; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN FIXATION; RESUSPENSION; WATER QUALITY; BIOFILTRATION; CLIMATE EFFECT; PHOTIC ZONE; PHYTOPLANKTON; REMINERALIZATION; SHALLOW WATER; TROPHIC STATUS; WATER COLUMN;

EID: 84898059100     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-013-9665-5     Document Type: Article

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