Living on the edge: Single-species dominance at the Pakistan oxygen minimum zone boundary

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 470, Issue , 2012, Pages 79-99

  Jeffreys, Rachel M ^a   Levin, Lisa A ^b   Lamont, Peter A ^c   Woulds, Clare ^d,e   Whitcraft, Christine R ^b,f   Mendoza, Guillermo F ^b   Wolff, George A ^a   Cowie, Gregory L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTER FOR MARINE BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION   (United States)

^c SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^f CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypoxia; Linopherus; Lipid biomarkers; Organic matter processing; Oxygen minimum zone; Single species dominance; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIOMARKER; BOUNDARY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED OXYGEN; DOMINANCE; FOOD SUPPLY; HYPOXIA; LIPID; MORPHOLOGY; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; POLYCHAETE; POPULATION SIZE; PREDATION; SEAFLOOR; STABLE ISOTOPE; TAXONOMY;

PAKISTAN;

AMPHINOMIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LINOPHERUS; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 84870829845     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10019     Document Type: Article

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