Oxygen as a control on seafloor biological communities and their roles in sedimentary carbon cycling

13C tracer experiments were conducted at sites spanning the steep oxygen, organic matter, and biological community gradients across the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone, in order to quantify the role that benthic fauna play in the short-term processing of organic matter (OM) and to determine how this...

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Main Authors: Woulds, C. (Author), Cowie, G.L (Author), Levin, L.A (Author), Andersson, J.H (Author), Middleburg, J.J (Author), Vandewiele, S. (Author), Lamont, P.A (Author), Larkin, K.E (Author), Gooday, A.J (Author), Schumacher, S. (Author), Whitcraft, C. (Author), Jeffreys, R.M (Author), Schwarz, M. (Author)
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Language:English
Published: 2007-07.
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