Shallow sublittoral macrozoobenthos in Kongsfjord, West Spitsbergen, Svalbard

Polish Polar Research

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 137-155

  Kaczmarek, Honorata ^a   Włodarska Kowalczuk, Maria ^a   Legezyńska, Joanna ^a   Zaja̧czkowski, Marek ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Arctic; Diversity; Kongsfjord; Macrozoobenthos; Svalbard

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; SUBSTRATE; ZOOBENTHOS;

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

AMPHIPODA; BIVALVIA; CRUSTACEA; ECHINOIDEA; GASTROPODA; ISCHYROCERUS; MARGARITES HELICINUS; ONISIMUS CARICUS; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS DROEBACHIENSIS;

EID: 21544471194     PISSN: 01380338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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