Transmission of ultraviolet radiation through the Antarctic annual sea ice and its biological effects on sea urchin embryos

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1957-1963

  Lesser, Michael P ^a   Lamare, Miles D ^b   Barker, Michael F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DNA; ECHINODERM; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; OZONE DEPLETION; SEA ICE; TRANSMISSIVITY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; WORLD;

ECHINIDAE; ECHINOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA; STERECHINUS NEUMAYERI;

EID: 9244243141     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2004.49.6.1957     Document Type: Article

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