Marine infaunal benthos in Arctic North America.

• Main Author: Ellis, Derek. V.
• Other Authors: Dunbar, M. (Supervisor)
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: McGill University 1957
• Subjects: Zoology; Arctic; Baffin Island; Greenland; Pacific; Baffin; Alaska
• Online Access: http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=111150

There have been many attempts to measure the crop of animals on the sea bottom in north European waters, where large numbers of benthonic species are economically important as stocks of food for commercial fish. Although the methods have also been applied to a few arctic localities (see page 8), very little is known about the size of the crop in the vast region between Greenland and the Pacific coast of Alaska. Quantitative surveys of the marine benthos were therefore made in Baffin Island during 1954 and 1955 and in West Greenland during 1956 in order to estimate the standing crop of benthos in these regions. This thesis presents the numerical data obtained in the surveys.