Nematode distribution in ocean margin sediments of the Goban Spur (northeast Atlantic) in relation to sediment geochemistry

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 44, Issue 9-10, 1997, Pages 1671-1683

  Soetaert, Karline ^a   Vanaverbeke, Jan ^a,b   Heip, Carlo ^a   Herman, Peter M J ^a   Middelburg, Jack J ^a   Sandee, Adri ^a   Duineveld, Gerard ^c  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC INFAUNA; GEOCHEMISTRY; MINERALIZATION; NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGEN; SEDIMENT; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER DEPTH;

ATLANTIC, GOBAN SPUR;

NEMATODA;

EID: 0030775730     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(97)00043-5     Document Type: Article

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