Diversity and distribution of cold-seep fauna associated with different geological and environmental settings at mud volcanoes and pockmarks of the Nile Deep-Sea Fan

Marine Biology

Volumn 158, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1187-1210

  Ritt, Bénédicte ^a   Pierre, Catherine ^b   Gauthier, Olivier ^a,c,d   Wenzhöfer, Frank ^e,f   Boetius, Antje ^e,f   Sarrazin, Jozée ^a  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^d INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BIOMASS; BRINE; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FAN DELTA; FAUNISTICS; MICROHABITAT; MUD VOLCANO; POCKMARK; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLE; SAMPLING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WATER DEPTH;

EGYPT;

GORGONACEA;

EID: 79957477314     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-011-1679-6     Document Type: Review

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