Polychaete assemblages of the northwestern Ross Sea shelf: Worming out the environmental drivers of Antarctic macrobenthic assemblage composition

Polar Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 971-989

  Kröger, Kerstin ^a   Rowden, Ashley A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Antarctic; Benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages; Distribution patterns; Environmental factors; Polychaeta; Ross Sea shelf

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MACROBENTHOS; POLYCHAETE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER DEPTH;

ANTARCTICA; CAPE ADARE; CAPE HALLETT; EAST ANTARCTICA; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

POLYCHAETA;

EID: 44949255217     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-008-0437-9     Document Type: Article

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