Dynamics of the bathyal Benthic Boundary Layer in the northwestern Mediterranean: Depth and temporal variations in macrofaunal-megafaunal communities and their possible connections within deep-sea trophic webs

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 111-139

  Cartes, Joan E ^a,b  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC BOUNDARY LAYER; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA, (NORTHWEST);

EID: 0031824442     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6611(98)00018-4     Document Type: Article

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