Soft-bottom macrobenthic faunal associations and factors affecting species distributions in an Arctic glacial fjord (Kongsfjord, Spitsbergen)

Polar Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 155-167

  Wlodarska Kowalczuk, Maria ^a   Pearson, Thomas H ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FJORD; MACROBENTHOS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; SOFT-BOTTOM ENVIRONMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARCTIC; KONGSFJORDEN; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

BIVALVIA; CHAETOZONE; CHONE; CLYMENURA POLARIS; ENNUCULA TENUIS; GALATHOWENIA; GALATHOWENIA OCULATA; HETEROMASTUS FILIFORMIS; LEITOSCOLOPLOS; LEPETA; LEPETA CAECA; LEVINSENIA; LEVINSENIA GRACILIS; LUMBRINERIS; MALDANE; MALDANE SARSI; NUCULOMA; OPHIURA; OPHIURA ROBUSTA; PRIONOSPIO; SPIOCHAETOPTERUS TYPICUS; TEREBELLIDES; TEREBELLIDES STROEMI; THYASIRA; YOLDIELLA; YOLDIELLA LENTICULA;

EID: 1542758803     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-003-0568-y     Document Type: Article

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