11.123 - Continental slope

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Waters situated over the continental slope, the steep descent from the continental shelf to the ocean bottom, an area where upwellings, water mixing or shearing and other anomalies often develop.

Bibliographie

Devillers P., Devillers-Terschuren J. & Vander Linden C., 2001. PHYSIS Palaearctic Habitat Classification Database. Updated to 10 December 2001. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Bruxelles. (Source)

Nicholson, 1977; Nelson, 1980; Lofgren, 1984; Augier, 1985; Fiala-Médione & al., 1987; Wood, 1988; Barnes and Hughes, 1988; Lalli and Parsons, 1995.