High carbon demand of dominant macrozoobenthic species indicates their central role in ecosystem carbon flow in a sub-arctic fjord

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 383, Issue , 2009, Pages 127-140

  Blicher, Martin Emil ^a   Sejr, Mikael Kristian ^b   Rysgaard, Søren ^a  

^a GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^b Department of Inland Fisheries   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Carbon demand; Chlamys islandica; Climate; Greenland; Kobbefjord; Macrobenthos; Production; Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; BIVALVE; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DOMINANCE; ECHINODERM; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FJORD; GROWTH RATE; MACROBENTHOS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; PHOTOGRAPH; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; SEAFLOOR; ZOOBENTHOS;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; KOBBEFJORD;

CHLAMYS ISLANDICA; ECHINOIDEA; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS DROEBACHIENSIS;

EID: 67149138151     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07978     Document Type: Article

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