High CO2 evasion during floods in an Australian subtropical estuary downstream from a modified acidic floodplain wetland

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 42-56

  Ruiz Halpern, Sergio ^a   Maher, Damien T ^a   Santos, Isaac R ^a   Eyre, Bradley D ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID SOIL; ACIDITY; AIR-WATER INTERACTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FLOODPLAIN; SALINITY; SUBTROPICAL REGION; WATER QUALITY; WETLAND;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; RICHMOND RIVER;

EID: 84922656294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lno.10004     Document Type: Article

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