Sediments hosting gas hydrates: Oases for metazoan meiofauna

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 337, Issue , 2007, Pages 27-37

  Sommer, Stefan ^a   Gutzmann, Erik ^a   Pfannkuche, Olaf ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon turnover; Cascadia subduction zone; Gas hydrate; Hydrate ridge; Meiofauna; Nematoda; Rotifera

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; CHEMOAUTOTROPHY; FOOD WEB; GAS HYDRATE; MEIOFAUNA; METAZOAN; NEMATODE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

CASCADIA MARGIN; HYDRATE RIDGE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BEGGIATOA; BIVALVIA; CALYPTOGENA; METAZOA; MOLLUSCA; NEMATODA; ROTIFERA;

EID: 34548293173     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps337027     Document Type: Article

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