Rapid creation of a reduced environment and an early stage of a chemosynthetic community on cattle bones at the deep-sea bottom in Sagami Bay, central Japan: An experimental approach to test the stepping-stone hypothesis for chemosynthetic community dispersion

Vie et Milieu

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-5

  Kitazato, H ^a   Shirayama, Y ^b  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Cattle bone community; Chemosynthetic community; Deep sea; Reduced environment; Stepping stone hypothesis

Indexed keywords

CATTLE BONES; CHEMOSYNTHESIS; COLONIZATION; DEEP-SEA BENTHOS; REDUCED ENVIRONMENT;

JAPAN, HONSHU, SAGAMI BAY;

EID: 0029751346     PISSN: 02408759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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