Community recovery following catastrophic iceberg impacts in a soft-sediment shallow-water site at Signy Island, Antarctica

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 186, Issue , 1999, Pages 1-8

  Peck, Lloyd S ^a   Brockington, Simon ^a   Vanhove, Sandra ^b   Beghyn, Myriam ^b  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Benthos; Community; Diversity; Iceberg; Macrofauna; Meiofauna

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ICE;

ANTARCTICA; SIGNY ISLAND;

BIVALVIA; MYSELLA; MYSELLA CHARCOTI;

EID: 0033578578     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps186001     Document Type: Article

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