Spring-to-summer changes and regional variability of benthic processes in the western Canadian Arctic

Polar Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2025-2038

  Link, Heike ^a   Archambault, Philippe ^a   Tamelander, Tobias ^b   Renaud, Paul E ^c   Piepenburg, Dieter ^d  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE LA MER DE RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arctic; Beaufort Sea; Benthic biomass; Carbon remineralisation; Pelagic benthic coupling; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BENTHIC-PELAGIC COUPLING; BIOMASS; CHLORINE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FOOD SUPPLY; ICE COVER; MINERALIZATION; PIGMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMINERALIZATION; SEASONALITY; SPRING (SEASON); SUMMER; SURFICIAL SEDIMENT; UPSCALING; WATER DEPTH;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BEAUFORT SEA; CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 81255158843     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-011-1046-6     Document Type: Article

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