Altered Sea Ice Thickness and Permanence Affects Benthic Ecosystem Functioning in Coastal Antarctica

Ecosystems

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 224-236

  Lohrer, Andrew M ^a   Cummings, Vonda J ^a   Thrush, Simon F ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

coastal Antarctic marine benthos; nutrient flux; Ophionotus victoriae; sediment oxygen demand; under ice algal detritus

Indexed keywords

ALGA; BENTHOS; CARBON DIOXIDE; COLD WATER; DETRITUS; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; ICE THICKNESS; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEA ICE; SEAFLOOR; WATER COLUMN;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84874565477     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-012-9610-7     Document Type: Article

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