How many macrozoobenthic species might inhabit the Antarctic shelf?

Antarctic Science

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 11-16

  Gutt, Julian ^a   Sirenko, Boris I ^b   Smirnov, Igor S ^b   Arntz, Wolf E ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Nonparametric species richness estimators; Species accumulation; Weddell Sea

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; MACROBENTHOS; SPECIES RICHNESS; ZOOBENTHOS;

SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 1542318914     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102004001750     Document Type: Conference Paper

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