Living conditions, abundance and composition of the metazoan fauna in surface and sub-ice layers in pack ice of the western Weddell Sea during late spring

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 8-9, 2008, Pages 1000-1014

  Kiko, Rainer ^a,b   Michels, Jan ^b   Mizdalski, Elke ^b   Schnack Schiel, Sigrid B ^b   Werner, Iris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Life cycle; Marine ecology; Sea ice; Southern Ocean; Sympagic copepods; Western Weddell Sea

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; LIFE CYCLE; SEA ICE;

MARINE ECOLOGY; SURFACE LAYERS; SYMPAGIC COPEPODS;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

ABUNDANCE; ALGA; CHLOROPHYLL A; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CRUSTACEAN; DOMINANCE; INVERTEBRATE; LIFE CYCLE; MEIOFAUNA; METAZOAN; PACK ICE; REPRODUCTION; SPRING (SEASON);

SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA;

ALGAE; AMPHIPODA; CALLIANIRA ANTARCTICA; COPEPODA; DIARTHRODES; DRESCHERIELLA; ECTINOSOMA; EUSIRUS; GASTROPODA; IDOMENE ANTARCTICA; METAZOA; STEPHOS LONGIPES; TERGIPES; TURBELLARIA;

EID: 43649088617     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2007.12.012     Document Type: Article

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