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| Soltwedel, T; Von Juterzenka, K; Premke, K; Klages, M. |
| Although the use of deep-sea imagery considerably increased during the last decades, reports on nekton falls to the deep seafloor are very scarce. Whereas there are a few reports describing the finding of whale carcasses in the deep north-eastern and south-eastern Pacific, descriptions of invertebrate or vertebrate food-falls at centimetre to metre scale are extremely rare. After 4 years of extensive work at a deep-sea long-term station in northern polar regions (AWI-"Hausgarten"), including large-scale visual observations with various camera systems covering some 10 000 m(2) of seafloor at water depths between 1250 and 5600 m, this paper describes the first observation of a fish carcass at about 1280 m water depth, west off Svalbard. The fish skeleton had... |
| Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: Chute; Carcasses; Océan profond; Imagerie; Nécrophage; Food-falls; Carcasses; Deep-sea; Imagery; Scavengers. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00321/43253/42984.pdf |
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