1) Ecological process
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Outwelling is a hypothesized process by which coastal salt marshes and mangroves, `hot spots” of production, produce an excess amount of carbon each year and `outwell” these organic nutrients and detritus into the surrounding coastal embayment or ocean, thus increasing the productivity of local fisheries or other coastal plants. Outwelling...
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The outflow of nutrients from an estuary or salt-marsh system to shelf waters
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