Slope and deep-sea abundance across scales: Southern Ocean isopods show how complex the deep sea can be

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 54, Issue 16-17, 2007, Pages 1776-1789

  Kaiser, Stefanie ^a   Barnes, David K A ^b   Brandt, Angelika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Ecological success; Patchiness; Peracarida; Rarity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COASTAL ZONES; ECOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHY;

ECOLOGICAL VARIABILITY; PATCHINESS; PERACARIDA; TOPOGRAPHICAL COMPLEXITY;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

ABUNDANCE; AMPHIPOD; DEEP SEA; ISOPOD; PATCHINESS; RARITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CAPE BASIN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMALIA; CRUSTACEA; CUMACEA; ISOPODA; MYSIDACEA; PERACARIDA; TANAIDACEA;

EID: 34948855385     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2007.07.006     Document Type: Article

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