Temporal variability of carbon and nutrient burial, sediment accretion, and mass accumulation over the past century in a carbonate platform mangrove forest of the Florida Everglades

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 119, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2032-2048

  Breithaupt, Joshua L ^a   Smoak, Joseph M ^a   Smith, Thomas J ^b   Sanders, Christian J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; CARBONATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; MANGROVE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT CORE; SOIL CHEMISTRY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

CHONDRICHTHYES;

EID: 84925010350     PISSN: 21698953     EISSN: 21698961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JG002715     Document Type: Article

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