Southern Ocean Deep Benthic Biodiversity

Antarctic Ecosystems: An Extreme Environment in a Changing World

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 291-334

  Brandt, A ^a   Kaiser, S ^a   De Broyer, C ^b   Ebbe, B ^c   Ellingsen, K E ^d   Gooday, A J ^e   Tyler, P A ^e   Janussen, D ^f   Linse, K ^g   Schueller, M ^h   Thomson, M R A ⁱ   Vanreusel, A ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^c ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^e NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^f SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^g BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^h RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^j GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

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Author keywords

Antarctic biodiversity; Benthic, megabenthos; Biogeography, endemism; Chemosynthetically driven, systems; Deep sea of SO, and World ocean; Faunal assemblages, and variables; Foraminifera; Meiofauna, macrofauna; Metazoan meiofauna; SO deep benthic biodiversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881010692     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444347241.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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