Predicting effects of ocean warming, acidification, and water quality on Chesapeake region eelgrass

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1781-1804

  Zimmerman, Richard C ^a   Hill, Victoria J ^a   Gallegos, Charles L ^b  

^a Old Dominion University   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT; CLIMATE EFFECT; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PREDICTION; SEAGRASS; SEAWATER; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WARMING; WATER QUALITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES;

ZOSTERA MARINA;

EID: 84953722500     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lno.10139     Document Type: Article

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