Marine snow originating from appendicularian houses: Age-dependent settling characteristics

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1304-1313

  Lombard, Fabien ^a   Kiørboe, Thomas ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Appendicularians; Marine snow; Particle size; Particles weight; Sinking speed

Indexed keywords

APPENDICULARIANS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIAL DEGRADATION; COMBINED EFFECT; COMPRESSION PROCESS; DRY WEIGHT; FIELD DATA; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; INITIAL WEIGHTS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOSS-IN-WEIGHT; MARINE SNOW; PARTICLE CONTENT; PARTICLES WEIGHT; PARTICULATE CARBON; SETTLING CHARACTERISTICS; SINKING SPEED; SINKING VELOCITY; SOLUTE CONCENTRATIONS; VERTICAL FLUXES; WEIGHT LOSS;

DEGRADATION; SNOW; SPEED; WEIGHING;

HOUSES;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOGENIC MATERIAL; COMPRESSION; DEFLATION; DETRITIVORY; DETRITUS; GRAZING; INVERTEBRATE; MARINE SNOW; SETTLING VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EAST);

APPENDICULARIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77956883423     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2010.06.008     Document Type: Article

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