Faunal communities at sites of gas- and oil-bearing fluids in Lake Baikal

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 437-451

  Zemskaya, Tamara I ^a   Sitnikova, Tatiana Y ^a   Kiyashko, Sergei I ^b   Kalmychkov, Gennady V ^c   Pogodaeva, Tatiana V ^a   Mekhanikova, Irina V ^a   Naumova, Tatiana V ^a   Shubenkova, Olga V ^a   Chernitsina, Svetlana M ^a   Kotsar, Oleg V ^a   Chernyaev, Evgeny S ^d   Khlystov, Oleg M ^a  

^a LIMNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c VINOGRADOV INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^d SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ECOLOGY; ISOTOPES; METAL IONS; METHANE; OILS AND FATS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; VOLCANOES; WATER;

BIODIVERSITY PATTERNS; CARBON AND NITROGEN; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; FAUNAL COMMUNITIES; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES;

LAKES;

BICARBONATE; CHLORIDE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DOMINANCE; FAUNA; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GAS HYDRATE; HYDROCARBON SEEP; MEIOFAUNA; MUD VOLCANO; NITRATE; OIL FIELD; POREWATER; SULFATE;

LAKE BAIKAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

AMPHIPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BIVALVIA; HARPACTICOIDA; NEMATODA; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA); OSTRACODA; TURBELLARIA;

EID: 84869159042     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: 14321157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-012-0297-8     Document Type: Article

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