Diets and standing stocks of benthopelagic fishes at two bathymetrically different midoceanic localities in the northeast Atlantic

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 541-558

  Martin, Bettina ^a   Christiansen, Bernd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BENTHOPELAGIC; BIOMASS; DEEP SEA; DEEP-SEA FISH; DIET;

ATLANTIC, (NORTHEAST);

CORYPHAENOIDES ARMATUS; CORYPHAENOIDES LEPTOLEPIS; HISTIOBRANCHUS BATHYBIUS;

EID: 0030791318     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(97)00008-3     Document Type: Article

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