Authors
F Kurbjeweit, Gerhard Schmiedl, Ralf Schiebel, Ch Hemleben, Olaf Pfannkuche, Klaus Wallmann, Priska Schäfer
Publication date
2000/1/1
Journal
Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography
Volume
47
Issue
14
Pages
2913-2955
Publisher
Pergamon
Description
The distribution, biomass, and diversity of living (Rose Bengal stained) deep-sea benthic foraminifera (>30μm) were investigated with multicorer samples from seven stations in the Arabian Sea during the intermonsoonal periods in March and in September/October, 1995. Water depths of the stations ranged between 1916 and 4425m. The distribution of benthic foraminifera was compared with dissolved oxygen, % organic carbon, % calcium carbonate, ammonium, % silica, chloroplastic pigment equivalents, sand content, pore water content of the sediment, and organic carbon flux to explain the foraminiferal patterns and depositional environments. A total of six species-communities comprising 178 living species were identified by principal component analysis. The seasonal comparison shows that at the western stations foraminiferal abundance and biomass were higher during the Spring Intermonsoon than during …
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