High zooplankton diversity in the extreme environments of the McMurdo Dry Valley lakes, Antarctica

Antarctic Science

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 131-138

  Hansson, Lars Anders ^a   Hylander, Samuel ^a   Dartnall, Herbert J G ^b   Lidström, Sven ^c   Svensson, Jan Erik ^d  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Swedish Polar Research Programme   (Sweden)

^d Medins Biologi ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

biodiversity; Boeckella; copepod; invasion; rotifer; species richness

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; EXTREME EVENT; INVASIVE SPECIES; INVERTEBRATE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; RANGE EXPANSION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; LAKE HOARE; MCMURDO DRY VALLEYS;

BOECKELLA; COPEPODA; CRUSTACEA; ROTIFERA;

EID: 84857847080     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: 13652079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095410201100071X     Document Type: Article

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