Microbial assemblages associated with sinking particles in the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (NE Atlantic Ocean)

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 1-4, 2001, Pages 105-121

  Vanucci, S ^a,b   Dell'Anno, A ^a   Pusceddu, A ^a   Fabiano, M ^c   Lampitt, R S ^d   Danovaro, R ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^d NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOMASS; CARBON; DNA; FLUXES; SEDIMENTS;

SINKING PARTICLES;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES;

DNA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICULATE FLUX;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PORCUPINE ABYSSAL PLAIN;

EID: 0034759532     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6611(01)00050-7     Document Type: Review

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