Scheduled Cruises in 2003

Summary of a recent cruise on margins research (FR.035)

Location :   West Africa

Research ship and cruise identifier :   NO L'Atalante BIOZAIRE

Sails :   30 December 2003 from Port Gentil

Docks :   31 December, 2003 Port Gentil

PI :   A. Khripounoff

Laboratory :   Ifremer, Brest, France

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Scientific objectives :   Study of the functioning of different types of benthic communities depending on the introduction of particulate matter from a variety of sources at four sites on the West African equatorial margin. Influence of qualitative and temporal variations in the chemical composiiton of source material, and the hydrodynmaic conditions of the surroundings on the dynamic structure of communities. Relations between different ecosystems.