UK atlantic margin environmental survey: Introduction and overview of bathyal benthic ecology

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 21, Issue 8-10, 2001, Pages 917-956

  Bett, Brian J ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

10W 01E; 56 63N; Bathyal; Corals; Ecology; Faroe Shetland Channel; Macrobenthos; Megabenthos; Norwegian Basin; Phytodetritus; Rockall Trough; UK Atlantic Margin; Xenophyophores

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BATHYAL ZONE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEEP-SEA BENTHOS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; UNITED KINGDOM MARGIN;

ANTHOZOA; ENTEROPNEUSTA; LOPHELIA PERTUSA; SYRINGAMMINA; SYRINGAMMINA FRAGILISSIMA; XENOPHYOPHORA;

EID: 0034975872     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-4343(00)00119-9     Document Type: Article

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