Activity patterns of mobile epibenthic megafauna at an abyssal site in the eastern North Pacific: Results from a 17-month time-lapse photographic study

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 559-579

  Kaufmann, R S ^a   Smith Jr , K L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABYSSAL SITE; ACTIVITY PATTERN; ACTIVITY PATTERNS; BENTHOS; DEEP SEA; DEEP-SEA BENTHOS; EPIBENTHIC MEGAFAUNA; EPIBENTHOS; ZOOBENTHOS;

PACIFIC, (NORTHEAST);

ABYSSOCUCUMIS ABYSSORUM; ELPIDIA MINUTISSIMA; HOLOTHUROIDEA; PENIAGONE VITREA;

EID: 0030878724     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(97)00005-8     Document Type: Article

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