It's a dirty job but someone has to do it: The role of marine benthic macrofauna in organic matter turnover and nutrient recycling to the water column

Chemistry and Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 321-342

  Welsh, David T ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bioturbation; Diagenesis; Nutrient recycling; Organic matter turnover; Sediment water column fluxes

Indexed keywords

BIOTURBATION; NUTRIENT CYCLING; ORGANIC MATTER; WATER COLUMN;

EID: 1342267762     PISSN: 02757540     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0275754031000155474     Document Type: Article

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