Effect of seasonal sediment storage in the lower Mississippi River on the flux of reactive particulate phosphorus to the Gulf of Mexico

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2223-2235

  Sutula, Martha ^a,b   Bianchi, Thomas S ^a   McKee, Brent A ^a  

^a Tulane University   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COASTAL WATER RESEARCH PROJECT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARTICULATE FLUX; PHOSPHORUS; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEASONALITY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STORAGE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; OCEANIC REGIONS; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 9244236053     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2004.49.6.2223     Document Type: Article

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