Different benthic size-compartments and their relationship to sediment chemistry in the deep Eurasian Arctic Ocean

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 199, Issue , 2000, Pages 31-41

  Kröncke, Ingrid ^a   Vanreusel, Ann ^b   Vincx, Magda ^b   Wollenburg, Jutta ^c   Mackensen, Andreas ^c   Liebezeit, Gerd ^d   Behrends, Brigitte ^d  

^a SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d Research Centre Terramare   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Arctic Ocean; Bacteria; C flux; Chloroplastic pigments; Deep sea; Foraminifera; Macrofauna; Meiofauna; TOC

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OCEAN; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOMASS; MACROFAUNA; SEDIMENT; WATER DEPTH; WATER SAMPLING;

BACTERIUM; BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOMASS; FAUNA; FORAMINIFERA; MEIOFAUNA; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 0342647366     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps199031     Document Type: Article

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