Ecology of cold seep sediments: Interactions of fauna with flow, chemistry and microbes

Oceanography and Marine Biology

Volumn 43, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-46

  Levin, Lisa A ^a  

^a INTEGRATIVE OCEANOGRAPHY DIVISION   (United States)

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