Quantification of marine snow fragmentation by swimming euphausiids

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 49, Issue 4 I, 2004, Pages 940-952

  Goldthwait, Sarah ^a   Yen, Jeannette ^b   Brown, Jason ^b   Alldredge, Alice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FLUX; FOOD AVAILABILITY; MARINE SNOW; ZOOPLANKTON;

EUPHAUSIA; EUPHAUSIA PACIFICA; EUPHAUSIACEA;

EID: 3843150304     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2004.49.4.0940     Document Type: Article

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