The short-term fate of fresh algal carbon in continental slope sediments

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1208-1219

  Blair, Neal E ^a   Levin, Lisa A ^b   DeMaster, David J ^a   Plaia, Gayle ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ANNELIDA; ARICIDEA QUADRILOBATA; CHLOROPHYTA; SCALIBREGMA INFLATUM;

EID: 0030446024     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1996.41.6.1208     Document Type: Article

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