Distribution and characteristics of marine habitats in a subpolar bay based on hydroacoustics and bed shear stress estimates—Potter Cove, King George Island, Antarctica

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 435-446

  Wölfl, Anne Cathrin ^a   Lim, Chai Heng ^b   Hass, H Christian ^a   Lindhorst, Sebastian ^c   Tosonotto, Gabriela ^d   Lettmann, Karsten Alexander ^b   Kuhn, Gerhard ^a   Wolff, Jörg Olaf ^b   Abele, Doris ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTO ANTÁRTICO ARGENTINO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; EROSION; SEDIMENTS; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESS; HABITAT DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES COMPOSITION; TIDEWATER GLACIERS;

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84920256224     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: 14321157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-014-0375-1     Document Type: Article

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