Seasonal patterns and depth-specific trends of zooplankton fecal pellet fluxes in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1303-1318

  Carroll, Michael L ^a,b   Miquel, Juan Carlos ^a   Fowler, Scott W ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Monaco)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FLUX; FECAL PELLET; SEASONALITY; VERTICAL MIXING; ZOOPLANKTON;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0031720790     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(98)00013-2     Document Type: Article

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