Eutrophication-Driven Hypoxia in the East China Sea off the Changjiang Estuary

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2255-2263

  Wang, Hongjie ^a,b   Dai, Minhan ^a   Liu, Jinwen ^a   Kao, Shuh Ji ^a   Zhang, Chao ^a   Cai, Wei Jun ^c   Wang, Guizhi ^a   Qian, Wei ^a   Zhao, Meixun ^d   Sun, Zhenyu ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBON; DISSOLUTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ESTUARIES; EUTROPHICATION; ISOTOPES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN;

CHANGJIANG ESTUARY; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; STABLE ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS;

ORGANIC CARBON;

CARBON; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGEN;

CARBON ISOTOPE; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; EUTROPHICATION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REMINERALIZATION; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHINA; COASTAL WATERS; ESTUARY; EUTROPHICATION; HYPOXIA; MARINE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SALINITY; SEA; SEASON; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; WATER TEMPERATURE;

CHINA; EAST CHINA SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; YANGTZE ESTUARY;

CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHINA; ESTUARIES; EUTROPHICATION; OXYGEN;

EID: 84959558295     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b06211     Document Type: Article

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