Organic biogeochemistry of the Darwin Mounds, a deep-water coral ecosystem, of the NE Atlantic

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1937-1954

  Kiriakoulakis, Konstadinos ^a   Bett, Brian J ^b   White, Martin ^c   Wolff, George A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Bioturbation; Darwin Mounds; Deep water corals; Lipids; Lophelia pertusa; Polyunsaturated fatty acids; Rockall Trough; Sediments; Suspended particulate organic matter

Indexed keywords

DARWIN MOUNDS; ORGANIC BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; ORGANIC CARBON; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER (SPOM);

BACTERIA; BIOCHEMISTRY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CARBON; ECOSYSTEMS; FATTY ACIDS; LIPIDS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTS; UNSATURATED POLYMERS; WATER;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

BENTHIC BOUNDARY LAYER; BENTHIC INFAUNA; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CORAL; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC MATTER; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; ROCKALL TROUGH; WORLD;

ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ECHIURA; LOPHELIA PERTUSA;

EID: 8844232809     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2004.07.010     Document Type: Article

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