Abundance and composition of the sea-ice meiofauna in off-shore pack ice of the Beaufort Gyre in summer 2002 and 2003

Polar Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 171-181

  Gradinger, Rolf R ^a   Meiners, Klaus ^b   Plumley, Gerry ^a   Zhang, Qing ^c   Bluhm, Bodil A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Chongqing Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MEIOFAUNA; PACK ICE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BEAUFORT SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

ALGAE; COPEPODA; NEMATODA; TURBELLARIA;

EID: 17644393208     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-004-0674-5     Document Type: Article

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