Cold seep and oxygen minimum zone associated sources of margin heterogeneity affect benthic assemblages, diversity and nutrition at the Cascadian margin (NE Pacific Ocean)

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 77-92

  Guilini, Katja ^a   Levin, Lisa A ^b   Vanreusel, Ann ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b INTEGRATIVE OCEANOGRAPHY DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM WATER; COLD SEEPS; HYDRATE RIDGE; LOW OXYGEN CONDITIONS; NEMATODE ASSEMBLAGES; NEMATODE COMMUNITIES; NORTH-EASTERN PACIFIC; OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; OXYGEN DEFICIENCY; OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONE; PACIFIC OCEAN; WATER DEPTH;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ECOSYSTEMS; GAS HYDRATES; HYDRATION; METHANE; OCEAN HABITATS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEEPAGE;

OXYGEN;

BENTHOS; COLD SEEP; DEEP SEA; HABITAT LOSS; HETEROGENEITY; NEMATODE; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WATER DEPTH;

HYDRATE RIDGE; OREGON; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); UNITED STATES;

DAPTONEMA; METADESMOLAIMUS; METAZOA; NEMATODA;

EID: 84858283548     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2011.10.003     Document Type: Article

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