Unravelling the environmental drivers of deep-sea nematode biodiversity and its relation with carbon mineralisation along a longitudinal primary productivity gradient

Biogeosciences

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 3127-3143

  Pape, E ^a   Bezerra, T N ^a   Jones, D O B ^b   Vanreusel, A ^a  

^a Marine Biology Section   (Belgium)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP-SEA BENTHOS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; MINERALIZATION; NEMATODE; PHYLOGENETICS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GALICIA BANK; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84877844455     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-10-3127-2013     Document Type: Article

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