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Seasonal distribution of hydrographic characteristics and phytoplankton in the karstic Zrmanja Estuary (eastern Adriatic Sea)

The abundance of phytoplankton and concentrations of nutrients were analyzed in relation to thermohaline conditions in the lower reach of the karstic Zrmanja River estuary, eastern Adriatic coast, Croatia, in the period from June 1998 to October 2000. The Zrmanja Estuary is highly stratified, shallow, oligotrophic estuary, dominated my marine phytoplankton. It is characterized by extremely low ortophosphate concentrations, and the distinctive summer minimum of inorganic nitrogen, as a result of exhaustion of the water column after the spring phytoplankton development, and a negliegible anthropogenic influence

Estuary; phytoplankton; nutrients; Adriatic Sea

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