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Is the Sabine-Neches estuary net heterotrophic or autotrophic? A reply to the comment by Flinn et al.

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  1. Institute for Earth and Ecosystem Sciences Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Tulane University, 70118-5698, New Orleans, Louisiana

    Thomas S. Bianchi

  2. Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, 77553, Galveston, Texas

    M. Baskaran

  3. Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, 80309-0428, Boulder, Colorado

    M. Ravichandran

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Bianchi, T.S., Baskaran, M. & Ravichandran, M. Is the Sabine-Neches estuary net heterotrophic or autotrophic? A reply to the comment by Flinn et al.. Estuaries 21, 839–841 (1998). https://doi.org/10.2307/1353286

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