Sea Ice Meio-and Macrofauna

Sea Ice: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 357-393

  Bluhm, Bodil A ^a   Gradinger, Rolf R ^a   Schnack Schiel, Sigrid B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antarctic ice associated euphausiids, Euphausia superba and E. crystallorophias; Colonization of sea ice and life history cycles; Ice meio and macrofauna feeding on ice algae, sea ice related or pelagic animals; Role of sea ice for Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba; Sea ice meio and macrofauna; Sea ice metazoan communities; Sea ice, habitat, feeding ground, refuge, breeding and or nursery ground for metazoan species; SIPRE (Snow, Ice and Permafrost Research Establishment) or CRREL (Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory); Spatial and temporal variability of in ice fauna

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887223255     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444317145.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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