Deepwater Program: Northern Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope Habitats and Benthic Ecology Interim Report - Year 2

An MMS workshop report on the deepwater GOM concluded that there was a need for additional information on the composition and structure of benthic communities, the associated biogeochemical processes, habitat heterogeneity and physiography, trophic interactions, and the biological "health" of the region (Carney 1998). The deep-sea is a setting within which benthic communities survive and propagate in the northern GOM. The deep-sea is characterized by total darkness, low temperature, nearly featureless mud, sparse food resources, predictable biomass patterns, unusual diversity patterns, and poorly defined couplings to topography, biogeochemistry, and currents

Author: U. S. Deparment of the Interior Minerals

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Jan 03, 2015

Number of Pages: 158 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1505526663

ISBN-13: 9781505526660