Biodiversity Patterns and Processes on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Life in the World's Oceans: Diversity, Distribution, and Abundance

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 103-122

  Vecchione, Michael ^a   Bergstad, Odd Aksel ^b   Byrkjedal, Ingvar ^c   Falkenhaug, Tone ^b   Gebruk, Andrey V ^d   Godø, Olav Rune ^b   Gislason, Astthor ^e   Heino, Mikko ^c   Høines, Åge S ^b   Menezes, Gui M M ^f   Piatkowski, Uwe ^g   Priede, Imants G ^h   Skov, Henrik ⁱ   Søiland, Henrik ^b   Sutton, Tracey ^j   De Lange Wenneck, Thomas ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^e MARINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iceland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

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

^h UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ DHI   (Denmark)

^j VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

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Author keywords

Biodiversity patterns and processes on the mid Atlantic ridge; Demersal fish biomass and abundance declining with depth from summit of ridge to middle rises; Faunal composition and biodiversity; Food webs and carbon fluxes; MAR ECO epibenthic invertebrate species new to science; MAR ECO, first comprehensive international exploration of substantial section of global mid ocean ridge system; Pelagic nekton fishes and cephalopods; Primary gap in current knowledge determination of temporal variation in faunal composition, abundance and ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957198494     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444325508.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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