Temporal shift in nutrient input to cold-seep food webs revealed by stable-isotope signatures of associated communities

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2537-2548

  Cordes, Erik E ^a   Becker, Erin L ^b   Fisher, Charles R ^b  

^a Temple University   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; ANNELID; BIOMASS; CARBON ISOTOPE; COLD SEEP; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENDEMISM; FOOD WEB; GENERALIST; GRAZING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; STABLE ISOTOPE; SUCCESSION; SULFUR ISOTOPE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

TUBICOLAE;

EID: 78649572193     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2010.55.6.2537     Document Type: Article

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