Benthic response to particulate fluxes in different trophic environments: A comparison between the Gulf of Lions-Catalan Sea (western-Mediterranean) and the Cretan Sea (eastern-Mediterranean)

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 287-312

  Danovaro, R ^a,e   Dinet, A ^b   Duineveld, G ^c   Tselepides, A ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCES   (Italy)

^b LABORATOIRE ARAGO   (France)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CHLOROPHYLL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEDITERRANEAN;

BENTHIC-PELAGIC COUPLING; BENTHOS; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; MEIOFAUNA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PARTICULATE FLUX; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; TROPHIC CONDITIONS;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0032737666     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6611(99)00030-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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