Diversity of the arctic deep-sea benthos

Marine Biodiversity

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 87-107

  Bodil, Bluhm A ^a   Ambrose Jr , William G ^b,g   Bergmann, Melanie ^c   Clough, Lisa M ^d   Gebruk, Andrey V ^e   Hasemann, Christiane ^c   Iken, Katrin ^a   Klages, Michael ^c   MacDonald, Ian R ^f   Renaud, Paul E ^g   Schewe, Ingo ^c   Soltwedel, Thomas ^c   Włodarska Kowalczuk, Maria ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b BATES COLLEGE   (United States)

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

^d EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^f FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^h INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Abundance; Arctic; Biomass; Deep sea; Diversity; Polychaeta

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BENTHOS; BIOMASS; DEEP SEA; FORAMINIFERA; GLOBAL WARMING; ICE COVER; INVERTEBRATE; LATITUDE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RESOLUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; STANDARDIZATION; TAXONOMY; WATER DEPTH;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; FRAM STRAIT; NORWEGIAN SEA;

ANNELIDA; ARTHROPODA; FORAMINIFERA; NEMATODA; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 79952575357     PISSN: 18671616     EISSN: 18671624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12526-010-0078-4     Document Type: Article

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