Growth and production of sea urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis in a high-Arctic fjord, and growth along a climatic gradient (64 to 77° N)

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 341, Issue , 2007, Pages 89-102

  Blicher, Martin E ^a,b   Rysgaard, Søren ^a   Sejr, Mikael K ^b  

^a GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^b Department of Inland Fisheries   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Carbon demand; Climate impacts; Macrobenthos; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECHINODERM; FJORD; GROWTH RATE; MACROBENTHOS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; WATER DEPTH;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

ECHINOIDEA; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS DROEBACHIENSIS;

EID: 34547599464     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps341089     Document Type: Article

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