Benthic dynamics and carbon fluxes on the NW European continental margin

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 48, Issue 14-15, 2001, Pages 3191-3221

  van Weering, Tjeerd C E ^a   De Stigter, Henko C ^a   Balzer, Wolfgang ^b   Epping, Eric H G ^a   Graf, Gerhard ^c   Hall, Ian R ^d   Helder, Willem ^a   Khripounoff, Alexis ^e   Lohse, Lutz ^a   McCave, I Nicholas ^d   Thomsen, Laurenz ^f   Vangriesheim, Annick ^c  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e IFREMER   (France)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBON MINERALIZATION; CARBON; DENITRIFICATION; EUROPE; HYDRODYNAMICS; LEAD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENTATION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; WATER DEPTH; WATER;

BIOMASS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DENITRIFICATION; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEDIMENT TRAPS; SEDIMENTS; TIDES;

PARTICULATE MATTER;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CARBON FLUX; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; NEPHELOID LAYER; PARTICULATE MATTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034836067     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(01)00037-6     Document Type: Article

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