Bioavailable compounds in sinking particulate organic matter, Blanes Canyon, NW Mediterranean Sea: Effects of a large storm and sea surface biological processes

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 118, Issue , 2013, Pages 108-121

  Lopez Fernandez, Pilar ^a   Bianchelli, Silvia ^b   Pusceddu, Antonio ^b   Calafat, Antoni ^a   Danovaro, Roberto ^b   Canals, Miquel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC ECOSYSTEMS; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; MONITORING PERIODS; NUTRITIONAL QUALITIES; OPTIMAL FORAGING THEORY; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTERS; PHYTOPLANKTON BLOOM;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBOHYDRATES; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; PHYTOPLANKTON; PROTEINS; SEDIMENT TRAPS; STORMS; SUBMARINES;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;

ALGAL BLOOM; BIOAVAILABILITY; CARBOHYDRATE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEEP-SEA BENTHOS; DETRITUS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LIPID; NUTRITION; ORGANIC MATTER; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; PROTEIN; SEA SURFACE; SUBMARINE CANYON;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (NORTHWEST);

ALGAE;

EID: 84888027388     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2013.07.022     Document Type: Article

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