Living benthic foraminifera of the Okhotsk Sea: Faunal composition, standing stocks and microhabitats

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 69, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 314-333

  Bubenshchikova, Natalia ^a   Nürnberg, Dirk ^b   Lembke Jene, Lester ^c   Pavlova, Galina ^d  

^a SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

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

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d IL ICHEV PACIFIC OCEANOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Living benthic foraminifera; microhabitat; Okhotsk Sea; organic matter flux; oxygen minimum zone

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DOMINANCE; ICE COVER; MARINE SEDIMENT; MICROHABITAT; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGEN; SEA ICE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER DEPTH;

EURASIA; KAMCHATKA; PACIFIC OCEAN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHALIN; SEA OF OKHOTSK;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 55549104694     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2008.09.002     Document Type: Article

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