Environmental drivers of the Canadian Arctic megabenthic communities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Roy, Virginie ^a   Iken, Katrin ^b   Archambault, Philippe ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE LA MER DE RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC CARBON;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIOMASS; BULK DENSITY; CANADA; CATERING SERVICE; COMMUNITY CLUSTER; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY GRADIENT; DIRECT GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAUNAL TRAWL; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEGABENTHIC COMMUNITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PHYSICAL WATER PROPERTY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE GRADIENT; SALINITY; SEDIMENT; SPATIAL GRADIENT; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER DEPTH; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; SEA;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CANADA; ENVIRONMENT; OCEANS AND SEAS;

EID: 84904247392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100900     Document Type: Article

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