Macrobenthic biomass, productivity (P/B̄) and production in a high-latitude ecosystem, North Norway

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 321, Issue , 2006, Pages 67-77

  Nilsen, Marianne ^a   Pedersen, Torstein ^a   Nilssen, Einar M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Abundance; Biomass; High latitude systems; Macrobenthic invertebrates; Macrobenthos; P B ratio; Production; Productivity

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BIOMASS; BIVALVE; ECHINODERM; FJORD; LATITUDE; MACROBENTHOS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; POLYCHAETE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; HORDALAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; SORFJORDEN;

ARCTICA ISLANDICA; CTENODISCUS CRISPATUS; INVERTEBRATA; MUSCULUS NIGER; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 33749621788     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps321067     Document Type: Article

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