Colonization patterns along the equatorial West African margin: Implications for functioning and diversity maintenance of bathyal and abyssal communities

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 56, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 2313-2325

  Menot, L ^a,b   Crassous, P ^b   Desbruyeres D ^b   Galeron J ^b   Khripounoff, A ^b   Sibuet, M ^a  

^a Institut Oceanographique de Paris   (France)

^b IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Biozaire; Colonization; Deep sea; Diversity; Macrofauna; Organic enrichment

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL SUBSTRATES; COLONIZATION RATE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEEP SEA; DEGRADATION RATE; DIVERSITY MAINTENANCE; GLASS BEAD; HIGH RATE; IFREMER; LOW RATES; MACROFAUNA; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; ORGANIC ENRICHMENT; ORGANIC MATTER; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTERS;

ANIMALS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; DEGRADATION; EXPERIMENTS; MAINTENANCE;

ORGANIC CARBON;

BATHYAL ZONE; COEXISTENCE; COLONIZATION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEEP SEA; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC MATTER; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 71749097619     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2009.04.012     Document Type: Article

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