Energetics of life on the deep seafloor

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 38, 2012, Pages 15366-15371

  McClain, Craig R ^a   Allen, Andrew P ^b   Tittensor, Derek P ^c,d   Rex, Michael A ^e  

^a NATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS CENTER   (United States)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Benthos; Ecosystem function; Macroecology; Metabolism

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOENERGY; BODY SIZE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DEEP SEA; DEEP SEA SPECIES; GROWTH RATE; LIFESPAN; METABOLIC RATE; METABOLIC THEORY OF ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TURNOVER TIME; WATER TEMPERATURE;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENT; MARINE BIOLOGY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; PLANTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84866552354     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1208976109     Document Type: Article

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