Response of abyssal copepoda Harpacticoida (crustacea) and other meiobenthos to an artificial disturbance and its bearing on future mining for polymetallic nodules

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 48, Issue 17-18, 2001, Pages 3779-3794

  Ahnert, Ahmed ^b   Schriever, Gerd ^a  

^a BIOLAB Forschungsinstitut   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANGANESE NODULES; MINING; SEDIMENTS;

SEX RATIOS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ABYSSAL ZONE; BENTHIC INFAUNA; CRUSTACEAN; DEEP SEA; MINING; PHYSICAL DISTURBANCE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

AMEIRIDAE; ARGESTIDAE; CANTHOCAMPTIDAE; CLETODIDAE; COPEPODA; CRUSTACEA; DIOSACCIDAE; ECTINOSOMATIDAE; HARPACTICOIDA; HARPACTICOIDA TAXOCENE; HUNTEMANNIIDAE; METAZOA; NEMATODA; NEOBRADYIDAE; PARAMESOCHRIDAE; THALESTRIDAE; TISBIDAE;

EID: 0035656060     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(01)00067-4     Document Type: Article

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