Composition and biomass of shallow benthic megafauna during an annual cycle in Admiralty Bay, King George Island, Antarctica

Antarctic Science

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 312-318

  Echeverría, Carlos Alejandro ^a   Paiva, Paulo Cesar ^a   Alves, Vinícius Couto ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Community structure; Iceberg; South Shetland Islands; Storms; Temporal variation

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BIOMASS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ADMIRALTY BAY; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; KING GEORGE ISLAND; SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS; WORLD;

EID: 24644517157     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102005002762     Document Type: Article

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