Semi-quantitative study of macrobenthic fauna in the region of the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Arnaud, Patrick, López, Carlos, Olaso-Toca, Luis Ignacio, Ramil, Francisco, Ramos-Esplá, A.A., Ramos, Ana
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 1998
• Subjects: Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo; Pesquerías; Antarctic; Antarctic Ocean; Antarctic Peninsula; Bray; Deception Island; Livingston Island; South Shetland Islands; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Foster Bay; Polar Biology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10508/10030; http://hdl.handle.net/10261/328140; https://doi.org/10.1007/s003000050229

During the BENTART 95 Expedition, 24 Agassiz trawls for macrozoobenthos sampling were carried out at depths of 40–850 m, from north of Livingston Island to the Antarctic Peninsula. The samples were analysed using a semi-quantitative method, and with the resulting numerical data, transformed into a s...