A benthic sled for sampling soft bottoms

Helgolander Meeresuntersuchungen

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 453-456

  Blomqvist, S ^a   Lundgren, L ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC SLED; BIOLOGICAL SAMPLING; SEDIMENT SAMPLERS; SOFT BOTTOMS; ZOOBENTHOS;

EID: 0030424130     PISSN: 01743597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02367160     Document Type: Article

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