Articles | Volume 11, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-123-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-123-2014
Research article
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09 Jan 2014
Research article |  | 09 Jan 2014

Opportunistic feeding on various organic food sources by the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa

C. E. Mueller, A. I. Larsson, B. Veuger, J. J. Middelburg, and D. van Oevelen

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