Short-term effects of nereid polychaete size and density on sediment inorganic nitrogen cycling under varying oxygen conditions

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 524, Issue , 2015, Pages 155-169

  Bosch, Jennifer A ^a   Cornwell, Jeffrey C ^a   Kemp, W Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alitta succinea; Bioirrigation; Denitrification; Hypoxia; Nitrogen cycling; Polychaetes; Sediment biogeochemistry

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DENITRIFICATION; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; EUTROPHICATION; HYPOXIA; INORGANIC NITROGEN; IRRIGATION; NITROGEN COMPOUND; NITROGEN CYCLE; OXYGEN; POLYCHAETE; POPULATION DENSITY; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; NEANTHES; NEREIDA; POLYCHAETA; SUCCINEA;

EID: 84926337418     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: 16161599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps11185     Document Type: Article

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