An autonomous, bottom-transecting vehicle for making long time-series measurements of sediment community oxygen consumption to abyssal depths

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1601-1612

  Smith Jr , K L ^a   Glatts, R C ^a   Baldwin, R J ^a   Beaulieu, S E ^a   Uhlman, A H ^b   Horn, R C ^b   Reimers, C E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLE; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENT REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLE;

EMMELICHTHYS STRUHSAKERI;

EID: 0031410824     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1997.42.7.1601     Document Type: Article

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