Influence of an Antarctic waste dump on recruitment to nearshore marine soft-sediment assemblages

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 276, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 53-70

  Stark, Jonathan S ^a   Riddle, Martin J ^a   Smith, Stephen D A ^b,c  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^c SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Environmental impact; Pollution; Recruitment; Soft sediment macrofauna; Waste dump

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MARINE SEDIMENT; MOBILIZATION; POLLUTION; POLLUTION EFFECT; RECRUITMENT; SOFT-BOTTOM ENVIRONMENT;

ANTARCTICA; CASEY STATION; EAST ANTARCTICA;

GASTROPODA; ISOPODA;

EID: 4444325896     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps276053     Document Type: Article

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