Carbon fluxes to Antarctic top predators

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 435-455

  Van Franeker, Jan A ^a   Bathmann, Ulrich V ^b   Mathot, Sylvie ^c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c Campus de la Plaine CP 221 ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL FLUXES; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON CYLCE; FOOD WEB; FOOD WEBS; NUTRIENT FLUX; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TOP PREDATORS;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 0030971877     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(96)00078-1     Document Type: Article

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