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Dissolved fatty acids in seawater from a fringing reef and a barrier reef at Grand Cayman 1
Author(s) -
Meyers Philip A.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
limnology and oceanography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 197
eISSN - 1939-5590
pISSN - 0024-3590
DOI - 10.4319/lo.1976.21.2.0315
Subject(s) - reef , great barrier reef , fringing reef , seawater , oceanography , shore , geology , environmental science
The concentration of dissolved fatty acids decreased in seawater as it flowed across a windward barrier reef at Grand Cayman. No comparable changes were observed over a leeward fringing reef although an increasingly enriched organic surface layer could be detected as distance from shore increased.
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