Response of an abyssal macrofaunal community to a phytodetrital pulse

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 355, Issue , 2008, Pages 73-84

  Sweetman, A K ^a,c   Witte, U ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

13C; 15N; Abyssal plain; Benthic carbon remineralisation; Deep sea; Macrofauna; Natural isotopic signatures; Northeast Pacific; Pulse chase experiments

Indexed keywords

ABYSSAL ORGANISM; ABYSSAL ZONE; BENTHOS; CARBON CYCLE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRUSTACEAN; EUPHOTIC ZONE; NEMATODE; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; PHYTODETRITUS; REMINERALIZATION; SEAFLOOR;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

CRUSTACEA; CUMACEA; NEMATODA; PARAONIDAE; POLYCHAETA; SKELETONEMA COSTATUM;

EID: 41349083595     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07240     Document Type: Article

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