Seal-mounted cameras detect invertebrate fauna on the underside of an Antarctic ice shelf

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 309, Issue , 2006, Pages 297-300

  Watanabe, Yuuki ^a   Bornemann, Horst ^b   Liebsch, Nikolai ^c,e   Plötz, Joachim ^b   Sato, Katsufumi ^a,d   Naito, Yasuhiko ^d   Miyazaki, Nobuyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^e SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Camera; Diving; Fauna; Ice shelf; Leptonychotes weddellii; Weddell seal

Indexed keywords

DIVING; FAUNA; INVERTEBRATE; ISOPOD; SEA ICE; UNDERWATER VEHICLE;

ANTARCTICA;

CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; INVERTEBRATA; ISOPODA; LEPTONYCHOTES WEDDELLII;

EID: 33645831586     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps309297     Document Type: Article

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