Sediment community response to a temporally varying food supply at an abyssal station in the NE Pacific

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 45, Issue 4-5, 1998, Pages 893-913

  Drazen, Jeffrey C ^a   Baldwin, Roberta J ^a   Smith Jr , Kenneth L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

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EID: 0032052483     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(98)00007-1     Document Type: Article

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