Mesopelagic zone ecology and biogeochemistry – a synthesis

Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography - Tập 57 Số 16 - Trang 1504-1518 - 2010
Carol Robinson1, Deborah K. Steinberg2, Thomas R. Anderson3, Javier Arı́stegui4, Craig A. Carlson5, Jessica R. Frost6, Jean François Ghiglione7, Santiago Hernández‐León4, George A. Jackson8, Rolf Koppelmann6, Bernard Quéguiner9,10,11, Olivier Ragueneau12, Fereidoun Rassoulzadegan13, Bruce H. Robison14, Christian Tamburini15, Tsuneo Tanaka9,10,11, Karen F. Wishner16, Jing Zhang17
1School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
2Virginia Institute of Marine Science, 1208 Greate Rd., Gloucester Point, Virginia 23062, USA
3National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, Waterfront Campus, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK
4Facultad de Ciencias del Mar, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Campus Universitario de Tafira, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
5Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
6Institute for Hydrobiology and Fisheries Science, University of Hamburg, Grosse Elbstrasse 133, 22767 Hamburg, Germany
7CNRS, Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls, BP 44 UMR-CNRS 7621 66651 Banyuls sur mer, France
8Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
9Aix-Marseille Université
10CNRS-INSU
11LOPB-UMR 6535, Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Biogéochimique, OSU/Centre d’Océanologie de Marseille, Campus de Luminy, Case 901, 13288 Marseille, Cedex 9, France
12Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, UMR 6539, Site du Technopole Brest-Iroise Place Nicolas Copernic 29280 Plouzane, France
13Laboratoire d'Oceanographie de Villefranche, UMR 7093, Station Zoologique, B.P. 28 06234 Villefranche-sur-Mer, Cedex, France
14Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 7700 Sandholdt Rd., Moss Landing, CA 95039, USA,
15Université de la Méditerranée, Centre d'Océanologie de Marseille, Laboratoire Microbiologie, Géochimie et Ecologie Marines, UMR 6117 CNRS – INSU, Campus de Luminy, Case 901, 13288 Marseille, Cedex 9, France
16University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI 02882, USA
17State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, 3663 Zhongshan Road North, Shanghai 200062, China

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