Latitude versus local effects on echinoderm assemblages along the Victoria Land coast, Ross Sea, Antarctica

Antarctic Science

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 655-662

  De Domenico, Francesca ^a   Chiantore, Mariachiara ^a   Buongiovanni, Sabrina ^a   Ferranti, Maria Paola ^a   Ghione, Serena ^a   Thrush, Simon ^b   Cummings, Vonda ^b   Hewitt, Judi ^b   Kroeger, Kerstin ^b   Cattaneo Vietti, Riccardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Alpha and beta diversity; Balleny Islands; Benthic diversity; Latitudinal Gradient Project

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECHINODERM; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; REGIONAL PATTERN;

ANTARCTICA; BALLENY ISLANDS; EAST ANTARCTICA; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; VICTORIA LAND;

ECHINODERMATA;

EID: 33751022442     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: 13652079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095410200600068X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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