Giant aggregates: Importance as microbial centers and agents of material flux in the mesopelagic zone

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 498-507

  Silver, Mary W ^a   Coale, Susan L ^a   Pilskaln, Cynthia H ^b   Steinberg, Deborah R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Bermuda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE; MICROORGANISM; PARTICULATE FLUX; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLE; SAMPLING;

CALIFORNIA; MONTEREY BAY; USA;

APPENDICULARIA; APPENDICULARIA (CLASS); BATHOCHORDAEUS; PTEROPODA;

EID: 0031840027     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1998.43.3.0498     Document Type: Article

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