Physical reworking by near-bottom flow alters the metazoan meiofauna of Fieberling Guyot (northeast Pacific)

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2041-2052

  Thistle, David ^a   Levin, Lisa A ^b   Gooday, Andrew J ^c   Pfannkuche, Olaf ^d   Lambshead, P John D ^e  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^e DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deep sea; Disturbance; Harpacticoida; Meiofauna; Nematoda; Seamount

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM CURRENT; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; MEIOFAUNA; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; REWORKING; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032727326     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(99)00040-0     Document Type: Article

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