Intertidal and subtidal soft-bottom macro- and meiofauna of the Kongsfjord (Spitsbergen)

Polar Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 550-557

  Bick, Andreas ^a   Arlt, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MACROBENTHOS; MEIOFAUNA; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT;

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

ANNELIDA; COPEPODA;

EID: 21344472583     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-004-0710-5     Document Type: Article

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