Particulate organic carbon: Natural radionuclide ratios in zooplankton and their freshly produced fecal pellets from the NW Mediterranean (MedFlux 2005)

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 966-974

  Rodriguez Y Baena, Alessia M ^a,b,d   Fowler, Scott W ^c,e   Miquel, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Monaco)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d International Commission for the Scientific Exploration of the Mediterranean Sea CIESM   (Monaco)

^e NONE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; CARBON FLUX; FECAL PELLET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; RADIONUCLIDE; ZOOPLANKTON;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (NORTHWEST);

COPEPODA; EUPHAUSIIDAE; PTEROPODA; SALPIDA;

EID: 34249703525     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2007.52.3.0966     Document Type: Article

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