Megafaunal communities in rapidly warming fjords along the West Antarctic Peninsula: Hotspots of abundance and beta diversity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Grange, Laura J ^a,b   Smith, Craig R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL COMMUNITY; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BENTHIC FAUNA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MACROALGA; NEKTON; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREDICTION; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ECOSYSTEM; ESTUARIES; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84889262936     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077917     Document Type: Article

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