Organic matter pathways to zooplankton and benthos under pack ice in late winter and open water in late summer in the north-central Bering Sea

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 291, Issue , 2005, Pages 135-150

  Lovvorn, James R ^a   Cooper, Lee W ^b   Brooks, Marjorie L ^a   De Ruyck, Christopher C ^a   Bump, Joseph K ^a,c   Grebmeier, Jacqueline M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Food webs; Organic matter sources; Sea ice; Spring bloom; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; ORGANIC MATTER; PACK ICE; WINTER; ZOOPLANKTON;

BERING SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BIVALVIA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 19944388598     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps291135     Document Type: Article

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