Planktonic response to main oceanographic changes in the Alboran Sea (Western Mediterranean) as documented in sediment traps and surface sediments

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 53, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 423-445

  Barcena M A ^a   Flores, J A ^a   Sierro, F J ^a   Perez Folgado M ^a   Fabres, J ^b   Calafat, A ^b   Canals, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alboran Sea; chlorophyll a concentrations; microfossil fluxes; oceanographic response; particulate fluxes; surface sediments

Indexed keywords

HYDROGRAPHY; MICROFOSSIL; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTON; SEDIMENT TRAP;

ALBORAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CALCIDISCUS; CALCIDISCUS LEPTOPORUS; CHAETOCEROS; FORAMINIFERA; GEPHYROCAPSA; GEPHYROCAPSA MUELLERAE; GLOBIGERINA; GLOBIGERINA BULLOIDES; GLOBOROTALIA; GLOBOROTALIA INFLATA; LEPTOCYLINDRUS DANICUS; LEPTOPORUS;

EID: 9644307934     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2004.09.009     Document Type: Article

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