Habitat complexity and bottom fauna composition at different scales on the continental shelf and slope of northern Norway

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 685, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 191-219

  Buhl Mortensen, L ^a   Buhl Mortensen, P ^a   Dolan, M F J ^b   Dannheim, J ^c   Bellec, V ^b   Holte, B ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

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

Author keywords

Benthic heterogeneity; Benthic production; Biomass; Mapping; Marine landscape; Scale of diversity; Video survey

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER; BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; BENTHOS; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPLEXITY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; CRUSTACEAN; EPIFAUNA; HETEROGENEITY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VIDEOGRAPHY;

NORWAY;

CRUSTACEA;

EID: 84857656204     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0988-6     Document Type: Article

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