Standing stocks and body size of deep-sea macrofauna: Predicting the baseline of 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the northern Gulf of Mexico

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 69, Issue , 2012, Pages 82-99

  Wei, Chih Lin ^a   Rowe, Gilbert T ^b,d   Escobar Briones, Elva ^c   Nunnally, Clifton ^d,e   Soliman, Yousria ^f   Ellis, Nick ^g  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT GALVESTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^f QATAR UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

^g CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body size; Deep sea; Deepwater Horizon oil spill; Export POC flux; Gulf of Mexico; Macrofauna; Mississippi Canyon; Ocean color; Primary production; Random Forest modeling; Remote sensing; Standing stock

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZES; DEEP-SEA; DEEPWATER; GULF OF MEXICO; MACROFAUNA; MISSISSIPPI CANYON; OCEAN COLOR; POC FLUX; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RANDOM FORESTS; STANDING STOCK;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION TREES; OIL SPILLS; PRODUCTIVITY; REMOTE SENSING; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SURVEYS;

MARINE POLLUTION;

ABUNDANCE; BASELINE CONDITIONS; BATHYMETRY; BIOMASS; BODY SIZE; CARBON FLUX; CLIMATE EFFECT; DATABASE; DEEP-SEA ORGANISM; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MIXED LAYER; OCEAN COLOR; OIL SPILL; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; POLLUTION EFFECT; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; ZOOBENTHOS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; LOOP CURRENT; MISSISSIPPI CANYON;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84866551206     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2012.07.008     Document Type: Article

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