Antarctic shallow-water mega-epibenthos: Shaped by circumpolar dispersion or local conditions?

Marine Biology

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 829-839

  Ragua Gil J M ^a   Gutt, J ^a   Clarke, A ^b   Arntz, W E ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; SHALLOW WATER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA; WEST ANTARCTICA;

ASCIDIACEA; BRYOZOA; ECHINODERMATA; GORGONACEA; HYDROZOA; OPHIUROIDEA;

EID: 2542537701     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-003-1269-3     Document Type: Article

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