Influence of carbonate dissolution on survival of shell-bearing meiobenthos in nearshore sediments

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 18-28

  Green, Mark A ^a,b   Aller, Robert C ^a   Aller, Josephine Y ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Saint Joseph's College of Maine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; CARBONATE; DISSOLUTION; FORAMINIFERA; SHELL; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; ELPHIDIUM CLAVATUM; FORAMINIFERA; NUCLUA ANNULATA; NUCULA ANNULATA; TELLINA AGILIS; TRIXIS;

EID: 0031811446     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1998.43.1.0018     Document Type: Article

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