Recovery of Benthic Megafauna from Anthropogenic Disturbance at a Hydrocarbon Drilling Well (380 m Depth in the Norwegian Sea)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Gates, Andrew R ^a   Jones, Daniel O B ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON;

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; BENTHIC FAUNA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CNIDARIA; DRILL; ETHNIC GROUP; GRAIN; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; NORWEGIAN; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPONGE (PORIFERA);

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS; INVERTEBRATES; MARINE BIOLOGY; NORWAY; OCEANS AND SEAS; PETROLEUM; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84867285097     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044114     Document Type: Article

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