Leaf litter degradation in highly turbid transitional waters: Preliminary results from litter-bag experiments in the Gironde Estuary

Geodinamica Acta

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 60-66

  Fuentes Cid, A ^a,b   Chauvet, E ^c,d   Etcheber, H ^e   De Oliveira, E ^b   Sottolichio, A ^a   Schmidt, S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b EDF R AND D   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^d Institut National Polytechnique   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

Author keywords

coarse particulate organic matter; decomposition kinetics; macrotidal estuary

Indexed keywords

QUERCUS ROBUR;

EID: 84924263890     PISSN: 09853111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09853111.2013.877233     Document Type: Article

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