Soft bottom species richness and diversity as a function of depth and iceberg scour in Arctic glacial Kongsfjorden (Svalbard)

Polar Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1035-1046

  Laudien, Jürgen ^a   Herrmann, Marko ^a   Arntz, Wolf E ^a  

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

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Feeding modes; Ice scouring; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Macrozoobenthos; Soft sediment

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPOD; BIOTOPE; ICEBERG; SOFT-BOTTOM ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARCTIC; KONGSFJORDEN; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

AMPHIPODA; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 34250025846     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-007-0263-5     Document Type: Article

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