Organic enrichment of submarine-canyon and continental-shelf benthic communities by macroalgal drift imported from nearshore kelp forests

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 669-678

  Harrold, Christopher ^a   Light, Karen ^a   Lisin, Susan ^a  

^a MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGA; BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; HABITAT; MACROCYSTIS PYRIFERA; MIGRATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

ALGAE; MACROCYSTIS PYRIFERA; PHAEOPHYCEAE; PHYLLOSPADIX; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 0031875945     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1998.43.4.0669     Document Type: Article

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