Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: The Mystery of the Deep Sea

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Loreau, Michel ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; SEA; SHORT SURVEY;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER;

EID: 38849107470     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.11.060     Document Type: Short Survey

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