Macrofaunal communities on the continental shelf off Victoria Land, Ross Sea, Antarctica

Antarctic Science

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 449-455

  Rehm, Peter ^a   Hooke, Rachel A ^b   Thatje, Sven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agassiz trawl; Cluster analysis; Latitudinal gradient; Macrozoobenthos; SIMPROF

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879993872     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: 13652079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102011000290     Document Type: Article

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