Seasonality of harpacticoids (Crustacea, Copepoda) in a tidal pool in subarctic south-western Iceland

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 503, Issue , 2003, Pages 211-221

  Steinarsdóttir, María Björk ^a   Ingólfsson, Agnar ^a   Ólafsson, Emil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Harpacticoida; High latitudes; Iceland; Migration; Reproduction; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ICE; ROCKS; WATER;

ICELANDS; SHALLOW-WATER;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MIGRATION; ROCK POOL; SEASONALITY;

ARCTIC; ICELAND;

ALGAE; AMEIRA; AMEIRA LONGIPES; AMPHIASCOIDES; AMPHIASCOIDES DEBILIS; AMPHIASCUS; AMPHIASCUS MINUTUS; CHONDRUS; CHONDRUS CRISPUS; COPEPODA; CRUSTACEA; DACTYLOPUSIA VULGARIS; ECTINOSOMA; HARPACTICOIDA; INVERTEBRATA; MESOCHRA; PARASTENHELIA SPINOSA; RHODOPHYTA; TISBE; ZAUS; ZAUS SPINATUS;

EID: 17544395002     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:HYDR.0000008489.41581.d7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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