Organic Matter and Nutrient Cycling in Coastal Wetlands and Submerged Aquatic Ecosystems in an Age of Rapid Environmental Change—The Anthropocene

Tracy Elsey-Quirk; Jeffrey C. Cornwell

doi:10.3390/jmse10081096

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (Aug 2022)

Organic Matter and Nutrient Cycling in Coastal Wetlands and Submerged Aquatic Ecosystems in an Age of Rapid Environmental Change—The Anthropocene

Tracy Elsey-Quirk,
Jeffrey C. Cornwell

Affiliations

Tracy Elsey-Quirk: Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
Jeffrey C. Cornwell: Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland, Cambridge, MA 21613, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse10081096
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 8
p. 1096

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Coastal ecosystems, such as marshes, mangroves, seagrasses and estuaries, are biogeochemical hotspots, receiving and transforming organic matter and nutrients from terrestrial watersheds and the coastal ocean [...]

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Published in Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

ISSN: 2077-1312 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Naval Science: Naval architecture. Shipbuilding. Marine engineering; Geography. Anthropology. Recreation: Oceanography
Website: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/jmse

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