Standing Stocks and Faunal Zonation of Deep-Sea Benthos: Patterns and Predictions across Scales
The deep ocean (> 200-m depth) covers more than 65 percent of earth's surface and is known as the largest active carbon sink of the planet. Photosynthesis fixes inorganic carbon into organic rich-compounds to fuel the biological production in the upper ocean. A small portion of the photosynt...
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-05-9423 |