Dissolved organic carbon fluxes by seagrass meadows and macroalgal beds

Frontiers in Marine Science

Volumn 1, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Barrón, Cristina ^a   Apostolaki, Eugenia T ^b   Duarte, Carlos M ^c,d,e  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon export; Coastal ecosystems; Dissolved organic carbon (DOC); Macroalgae; Seagrass

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008889306     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22967745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2014.00042     Document Type: Article

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