Organic enrichment and structure of macrobenthic communities in the glacial Baker Fjord, Northern Patagonia, Chile

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 73-83

  Quiroga, Eduardo ^a   Ortiz, Paula ^b   Gerdes, Dieter ^c   Reid, Brian ^b   Villagran, Soraya ^b   Quiñones, Renato ^d  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN ECOSISTEMAS DE LA PATAGONIA CIEP   (Chile)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

Baker Fjord; benthic communities; environmental relationships; organic matter in sediments

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL A; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLOOD; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INVERTEBRATE; MACROBENTHOS; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC MATTER; POPULATION DENSITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AISEN; BAKER BASIN; CHILE; PATAGONIA;

CAPITELLIDAE; CIRRATULIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; PARAONIDAE; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 84855654337     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315411000385     Document Type: Article

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