A temperature-tolerant interstitial worm with associated epibiotic bacteria from the shallow water fumaroles of Deception Island, Antarctica

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 10-11, 2003, Pages 1859-1871

  Bright, M ^a   Arndt, C ^b,c   Keckeis, H ^a   Felbeck, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOMASS; GAS EMISSIONS; TEMPERATURE;

ABIOTIC CONDITIONS;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

ABUNDANCE; BENTHOS; BIOMASS; FUMAROLE; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANTARCTICA; DECEPTION ISLAND; SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METAZOA; MONOCELIDIDAE; PLATYHELMINTHES; PROSERIATA;

EID: 0242500457     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(03)00095-X     Document Type: Article

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