- This Whale's (After) Life
This story begins where a whale’s life ends.
http://www.nurp.noaa.gov/Spotlight%20Articles/whales.html
(Added: Sun Sep 19 2004)
- Whale Falls
A dead whale on the floor of the deep ocean represents decades of food for a very specialized community of animals.
http://www.earthsky.com/shows/edgeshow.php?t=20030123
(Added: Sun Sep 19 2004)
- Whale falls
The persistence of whale-fall sulfophilic communities is largely due to the high lipid content of whale bones.
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/hannides/galleries/Calbasins/whalefalls.html
(Added: Sun Sep 19 2004)
- Whale falls— islands of abundance
One whale fall can deliver as much organic material as several thousand years worth of marine snow.
http://www.mbari.org/news/news_releases/2002/dec20_whalefall.html
(Added: Sun Sep 19 2004)
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