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Hurricane effects on water quality and benthos in the cape fear watershed: natural and anthropogenic impacts

1999-02-01

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In the summer of 1996, southeastern North Carolina, United States, was struck by two hurricanes, with the second (Hurricane Fran) doing considerably more damage than the first (Hurricane Bertha). The Cape Fear watershed, largest in North Carolina, suffered from severe water quality problems for weeks following Fran, including a massive fish kill in the Northeast Cape Fear River. Post‐hurricane flooding caused inpu...

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Literature Corpus work: f88393bc-2b85-56a6-8144-a61f7d0ff81c
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1999)009[0350:heowqa]2.0.co;2

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