Horizontal distribution patterns in Arctic deep-sea macrobenthic communities

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1167-1178

  Budaeva, Nataliya E ^a   Mokievsky, Vadim O ^a   Soltwedel, Thomas ^b   Gebruk, Andrey V ^a  

^a SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

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

Author keywords

Arctic; Deep sea; HAUSGARTEN; Horizontal distribution patterns; Macrozoobenthos

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT SCALES; FRAM STRAIT; HIERARCHICAL APPROACH; HORIZONTAL DISTRIBUTION; MACRO FAUNA; MACROBENTHOS; SPITSBERGEN; WATER DEPTHS;

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEEP-SEA BENTHOS; MACROBENTHOS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER DEPTH;

ARCTIC; FRAM STRAIT; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

GALATHOWENIA; MYRIOCHELE HEERI; TETRACTINOMORPHA;

EID: 48349087805     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2008.05.002     Document Type: Article

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