Pelagic-benthic coupling in the Nordic Seas: The role of episodic events

Marine Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 447-471

  Wassmann, Paul ^a   Andreassen, Inger ^a   Reigstad, Marit ^a   Slagstad, Dag ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Advection; Nordic Seas; Plankton dynamics; Sedimentation

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR ORGANISMS;

ADVECTION; BENTHIC-PELAGIC COUPLING; EPISODIC EVENT; EPISODIC EVENTS; PARTICLE FLUX; PELAGIC-BENTHIC COUPLING; ZOOPLANKTON;

BARENTS SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 0030485654     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.1996.tb00520.x     Document Type: Article

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