Benthic food-web structure of an arctic fjord (kongsfjorden, svalbard)

Marine Biology Research

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 13-26

  Renaud, Paul E ^a,b   Tessmann, Michael ^a   Evenset, Anita ^a   Christensen, Guttorm N ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

Author keywords

Functional group; Seasonality; Spatial variability; Stable isotopes; Trophic structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960487142     PISSN: 17451000     EISSN: 17451019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17451001003671597     Document Type: Article

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