The distribution and seasonal characteristics of benthic communities on the Amazon shelf as indicators of physical processes

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 16, Issue 5-6, 1996, Pages 717-751

  Aller, Josephine Y ^a   Stupakoff, Ian ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC COMMUNITY; BENTHOS; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DISTRIBUTION; FLOOD PROTECTION; FOUNDATION; HYDRAULIC GRADIENT; INDICATORS; LEVEE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEASONAL CHARACTERISTICS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SEEPAGE; SHELF SEDIMENTATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

BENTHOS; COMMUNITY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; FEEDING; MODEL; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; PROTECTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENTATION;

ATLANTIC, AMAZON CONTINENTAL SHELF; ATLANTIC, AMAZON SHELF;

EID: 0029776598     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0278-4343(96)88778-4     Document Type: Article

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