Marine Life in the Arctic

Life in the World's Oceans: Diversity, Distribution, and Abundance

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 183-202

  Gradinger, Rolf ^a   Bluhm, Bodil A ^a   Hopcroft, Russell R ^a   Gebruk, Andrey V ^b   Kosobokova, Ksenia ^b   Sirenko, Boris ^c   Wȩsławski, Jan Marcin ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

ArcOD activities; ArcOD's discovery over 60 invertebrate species new to science; Arctic Ocean Diversity project (ArcOD), regional field projects of international Census of Marine Life; FRAM drift, led by F. Nansen noteworthy for its wealth of physical and biological data; Knowledge of Arctic marine species before the Census; Marine life in the Arctic; Natural variability versus climate warming; Russian American Long term Census of the Arctic (RUSALCA) long term research relevant to climate change in Bering Strait and the Chukchi Sea

Indexed keywords

EID: 81455134576     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444325508.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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