Human impacts in Antartic marine soft-sediment assemblages: Correlations between multivariate biological patterns and environmental variables at Casey Station

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 56, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 717-734

  Stark, Jonathan S ^a   Riddle, Martin J ^a   Snape, Ian ^a   Scouller, Rebecca C ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctica coastal ecology; Environmental impact studies; Heavy metals; Macrobenthos community; Marine pollution; Sediments

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MARINE POLLUTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ANTARCTICA; CASEY STATION;

EID: 0038661605     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0272-7714(02)00291-3     Document Type: Article

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