Major consequences of an intense dense shelf water cascading event on deep-sea benthic trophic conditions and meiofaunal biodiversity

Biogeosciences

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2659-2670

  Pusceddu, A ^a   Mea, M ^a   Canals, M ^b   Heussner, S ^c   Durrieu De Madron, X ^c   Sanchez Vidal, A ^b   Bianchelli, S ^a   Corinaldesi, C ^a   Dell'Anno, A ^a   Thomsen, L ^d   Danovaro, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^d JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BATHYAL ZONE; DEEP-SEA BENTHOS; DENSE WATER; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EPISODIC EVENT; MEIOFAUNA; ORGANIC MATTER; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBMARINE CANYON; SUCCESSION; TROPHIC CONDITIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEEP SEA; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; TROPHIC CASCADE;

CAP DE CREUS; CATALONIA; GERONA [CATALONIA]; GULF OF LION; LACAZE-DUTHIERS CANYON; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SPAIN;

EID: 84876923769     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-10-2659-2013     Document Type: Article

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