Benthic marine fauna and flora of two nearshore coastal locations in the western and central Canadian Arctic

Arctic

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 281-301

  Brown, T M ^a,b   Edinger, E N ^a   Hooper, R G ^a   Belliveau, K ^a,c  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Assemblages; Climate change; Coastal erosion; Ecology; Habitat; Macroalgae; Marine benthos; Sedimentation

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BENTHOS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL EROSION; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FAUNISTICS; FLORISTICS; GREEN ALGA; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HARBOR; HETEROGENEITY; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE; MACROALGA; NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; RUNOFF; SAMPLING; SHORELINE; SUBSTRATE; VIDEOGRAPHY;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; KING WILLIAM ISLAND; NUNAVUT;

ACTINIARIA; ANEMONE; CERIANTHIDAE; CHLOROPHYTA; FUCUS; PHYLLOPHORA TRUNCATA;

EID: 80052543327     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14430/arctic4119     Document Type: Article

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