Climatic forcing of Quaternary deep-sea benthic communities in the North Pacific Ocean

Paleobiology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 162-179

  Yasuhara, Moriaki ^a,b,c   Hunt, Gene ^b   Cronin, Thomas M ^d   Hokanishi, Natsumi ^e   Kawahata, Hodaka ^e   Tsujimoto, Akira ^f   Ishitake, Miho ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g Sumika Chemical Analysis Service   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BENTHOS; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DEEP SEA; DISPERSAL; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FORAMINIFERA; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; MICROFOSSIL; OSTRACOD; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; QUATERNARY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

ANIMALIA; FORAMINIFERA; OSTRACODA;

EID: 84855499678     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/10068.1     Document Type: Article

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