Intertidal community composition along rocky shores in South-west Greenland: a quantitative approach

Polar Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1549-1561

  Høgslund, Signe ^a   Sejr, Mikael K ^a,c   Wiktor, Jozef ^b   Blicher, Martin E ^c   Wegeberg, Susse ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

^c GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

Author keywords

Air temperature; Arctic; Biomass; Climate change; Greenland; Intertidal; Rocky shore; Sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939874681     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: 14322056     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-014-1541-7     Document Type: Article

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