Shallow-water bottom fauna
(51 species) were recorded. Four different bottom types were sampled and the distribution of invertebrates in these bot tom types is discussed. The most important components in the benthos of the fiord were Polvchaeta. Crustacea. Bivalvia and Gas t ropoda (79.2%). From the zoogeographical point of v...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.456.2149 http://www.polish.polar.pan.pl/ppr08/1987_2_107-120.pdf |
| Summary: | (51 species) were recorded. Four different bottom types were sampled and the distribution of invertebrates in these bot tom types is discussed. The most important components in the benthos of the fiord were Polvchaeta. Crustacea. Bivalvia and Gas t ropoda (79.2%). From the zoogeographical point of view the Van Keulen fiord should be included into the transient zone, situated at the border of the boreal and arctic zones. K e y w o r d s: Arctic. Spitsbergen, bot tom fauna, zoogeography. 1. |
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