Scaling percentages and distributional patterns of benthic foraminifera with flux rates of organic carbon

Journal of Foraminiferal Research

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 173-185

  Altenbach, Alexander Volker ^a   Pflaumann, Uwe ^b   Schiebel, Ralf ^c   Thies, Andrea ^b   Timm, Sven ^b   Trauth, Martin ^d  

^a Inst Paleontology   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c Geol Paleont Inst   (Germany)

^d Institut fur Geowissenschaften   (Germany)

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