Biological community and sediment fatty acids associated with the deep-sea whale skeleton at the Torishima seamount

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-15

  Naganuma, Takeshi ^a,c   Wada, Hideki ^b   Fujioka, Kantaro ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; BENTHOS; BONE; CETACEAN; CHEMOSYNTHESIS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DEEP-SEA; DEEP-SEA BENTHOS; DIAGENESIS; FATTY ACID; FATTY ACIDS; FAUNAL COMPOSITION; MAMMAL; WHALE; WHALE SKELETON;

PACIFIC, (NORTHWEST), TORISHIMA SEAMOUNT; PACIFIC, TORISHIMA SEAMOUNT;

EID: 0029751964     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02236529     Document Type: Article

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