Shallow winter and summer macrofauna in a high Arctic fjord (79° N, Spitsbergen)

Marine Biodiversity

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 425-439

  Kędra, Monika ^a   Legeżyńska, Joanna ^a   Walkusz, Wojciech ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

^b FRESHWATER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Benthos; Sublittoral; Winter

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALGAL BLOOM; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOMASS; CARNIVORE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FJORD; GLACIER DYNAMICS; MACROBENTHOS; OVERWINTERING; PHYTOPLANKTON; RESEARCH VESSEL; SHALLOW WATER; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUMMER; SURVIVAL; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WINTER;

ARCTIC; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

ALGAE;

EID: 80051937708     PISSN: 18671616     EISSN: 18671624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12526-010-0066-8     Document Type: Article

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