The importance of marine sediment biodiversity in ecosystem processes

Ambio

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 578-583

  Snelgrove, Paul V R ^a,j   Henry Blackburn, T ^a,b   Hutchings, Pat A ^a,i   Alongi, Daniel M ^a,h   Frederick Grassle, J ^a,g   Hummel, Herman ^a,f   King, Gary ^a,e   Koike, Isao ^a,d   Lambshead, P J D ^a,c   Ramsing, Niels B ^a,b   Solis Weiss, Vivianne ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^e RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

ⁱ DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENT;

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76. The authors would like to acknowledge the work of the marine domain editorial committee: Niels Ramsing, Fred Grassle, Isao Koike and Pat Hutchings.