Colonisation of hard substrata along a channel system in the deep Greenland Sea

Polar Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1359-1369

  Schulz, Miriam ^a   Bergmann, Melanie ^b   von Juterzenka, Karen ^c   Soltwedel, Thomas ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arctic; Ardencaple canyon; Channel systems; Community structure; Dropstone; Epibenthic megafauna; Greenland Sea; Hard substrata

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CHANGE; COLONIZATION; DEEP-SEA BENTHOS; INVERTEBRATE; MORPHOTYPE; PHOTOGRAPHY; SEAFLOOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; TAXONOMY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ARDENCAPLE CANYON; GREENLAND SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

ACTINIARIA; ASCORHYNCHUS; BATHYPHELLIA MARGARITACEA; PYCNOGONIDA;

EID: 79952574914     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-010-0825-9     Document Type: Article

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