Biodiversity of an unknown Antarctic Sea: Assessing isopod richness and abundance in the first benthic survey of the Amundsen continental shelf

Marine Biodiversity

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 27-43

  Kaiser, Stefanie ^a,b   Barnes, David K A ^b   Sands, Chester J ^b   Brandt, Angelika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accumulation curves; Antarctic; BIOPEARL; Dominance structure; Macrobenthos; Pine Island Bay; Scotia Sea

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ACCUMULATION RATE; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIODIVERSITY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DOMINANCE; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; ISOPOD; MACROBENTHOS; PATCHINESS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SAMPLE PREPARATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

AMUNDSEN SEA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; SCOTIA SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

DESMOSOMATIDAE; ISOPODA; NANNONISCIDAE;

EID: 70449113140     PISSN: 18671616     EISSN: 18671624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12526-009-0004-9     Document Type: Article

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