Impact of the Azores Front on the distribution of planktic foraminifers, shelled gastropods, and coccolithophorids

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 49, Issue 19, 2002, Pages 4035-4050

  Schiebel, Ralf ^a   Waniek, Joanna ^b   Zeltner, Alexandra ^a,d   Alves, Mário ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

WATER MASSES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

COCCOLITH; FORAMINIFERA; MOLLUSC; OCEANIC FRONT; PLANKTON; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; THERMOCLINE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

FORAMINIFERA; GASTROPODA; GLOBIGERINOIDES; GLOBIGERINOIDES RUBER; GLOBOROTALIA; GLOBOROTALIA SCITULA; GLOBOROTALIA TRUNCATULINOIDES; HAPTOPHYCEAE; LIMACINA; LIMACINA INFLATA; PTEROPODA; TURBOROTALITA;

EID: 0036034311     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(02)00141-8     Document Type: Article

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