Land–Sea Coupling and Global-Driven Forcing: Following Some of Scott Nixon’s Challenges

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1189-1201

  Valiela, Ivan ^a   Bartholomew, Megan ^a  

^a ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal watersheds; Connectivity; Deforestation; Estuaries; Eutrophication; La Ni a; Land use changes; Mangroves; Spatially subsidized food webs; Upwelling

Indexed keywords

RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 84931957909     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-014-9808-3     Document Type: Article

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