Bathymetric changes in the distributions of particulate organic matter and associated fauna along a deep-sea transect down the catalan sea slope (Northwestern Mediterranean)

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 29-56

  Cartes, J E ^a   Gremare A ^b   Maynou, F ^a   Villora Moreno, S ^b   Dinet, A ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b LABORATOIRE ARAGO   (France)

Author keywords

Community response; Coupling; Deep sea; Meiofauna; Sedimentary organic matter; Suprabenthos; Trophic levels; Western Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BATHYMETRY; BIOCHEMISTRY; POPULATION STATISTICS; SEDIMENTS;

DEMOGRAPHY STRUCTURE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; BENTHOS; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DEEP SEA; MEIOFAUNA; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

AMPHIPODA; ATLANTICUS; BATHYMEDON; COPEPODA; CUMACEA; CYCLASPIS; CYCLASPIS LONGICAUDATA; ISOPODA; MUNNOPSURUS; MUNNOPSURUS ATLANTICUS; PLATYSYMPUS; RHACHOTROPIS; SCOPELOCHEIRUS; SCOPELOCHEIRUS HOPEI;

EID: 0036074997     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6611(02)00023-X     Document Type: Review

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