Seagrass sediments reveal the long-term deterioration of an estuarine ecosystem

Global Change Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1523-1531

  Serrano, Oscar ^a,b   Lavery, Paul ^a,c   Masque, Pere ^a,b,d   Inostroza, Karina ^e   Bongiovanni, James ^a   Duarte, Carlos ^f  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^d INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^e British Maritime Technology Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^f KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Blue carbon; Coastal ecosystems; Ecosystem change; Eutrophication; Palaeoecology; Seagrass archives

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; EUTROPHICATION; SEAGRASS MEADOW;

AUSTRALIA; OYSTER HARBOUR; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ALGAE; OSTREIDAE; POSIDONIA AUSTRALIS;

CARBON; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM;

AGRICULTURE; ALISMATALES; ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; ESTUARY; EUTROPHICATION; SEDIMENT; URBANIZATION; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

AGRICULTURE; ALISMATIDAE; CARBON ISOTOPES; ECOSYSTEM; ESTUARIES; EUTROPHICATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; URBANIZATION; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84959174644     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13195     Document Type: Article

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