Antarctic sympagic meiofauna in winter ...
This study of Antarctic sympagic meiofauna in pack ice during late winter compares communities between the perennially ice-covered western Weddell Sea and the seasonally ice-covered southern Indian Ocean. Sympagic meiofauna (proto- and metazoans > 20 µm) and eggs > 20 µm were studied in terms...
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ftdatacite:10.1594/pangaea.734773 2023-10-01T03:52:08+02:00 Antarctic sympagic meiofauna in winter ... Kramer, Maike Swadling, Kerrie M Meiners, Klaus M Kiko, Rainer Scheltz, Annette Nicolaus, Marcel Werner, Iris 2010 application/zip https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.734773 https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.734773 en eng PANGAEA https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.10.029 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode cc-by-3.0 Ice station Multiple investigations SIPEX ANT-XXIII/7 Aurora Australis Polarstern International Polar Year 2007-2008 IPY Priority Programme 1158 Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas SPP1158 Supplementary Publication Series of Datasets article Collection 2010 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.73477310.1016/j.dsr2.2010.10.029 2023-09-04T14:52:34Z This study of Antarctic sympagic meiofauna in pack ice during late winter compares communities between the perennially ice-covered western Weddell Sea and the seasonally ice-covered southern Indian Ocean. Sympagic meiofauna (proto- and metazoans > 20 µm) and eggs > 20 µm were studied in terms of diversity, abundance and carbon biomass, and with respect to vertical distribution. Metazoan meiofauna had significantly higher abundance and biomass in the western Weddell Sea (medians: 31.1 * 10**3/m**2 and 6.53 mg/m**2, respectively) than in the southern Indian Ocean (medians: 1.0 * 10**3 /m**2 and 0.06 mg/m**2, respectively). Metazoan diversity was also significantly higher in the western Weddell Sea. Furthermore, the two regions differed significantly in terms of meiofauna community composition, as revealed through multivariate analyses. The overall diversity of sympagic meiofauna was high, and integrated abundance and biomass of total meiofauna were also high in both regions (0.6 - 178.6 * 10**3/m**2 and ... : Project: 'The role of sympagic meiofauna for the flow of organic matter and energy in the Antarctic and Arctic sea-ice foodwebs' (Project No WE 2536 / 11-1, -2, I. Werner and M. Spindler, Institute for Polar Ecology, Kiel, Germany); funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)Data extracted in the frame of a joint ICSTI/PANGAEA IPY effort, see http://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.150150 ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Arctic aurora australis International Polar Year IPY Sea ice Weddell Sea DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Antarctic Arctic Indian The Antarctic Weddell Weddell Sea |
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This study of Antarctic sympagic meiofauna in pack ice during late winter compares communities between the perennially ice-covered western Weddell Sea and the seasonally ice-covered southern Indian Ocean. Sympagic meiofauna (proto- and metazoans > 20 µm) and eggs > 20 µm were studied in terms of diversity, abundance and carbon biomass, and with respect to vertical distribution. Metazoan meiofauna had significantly higher abundance and biomass in the western Weddell Sea (medians: 31.1 * 10**3/m**2 and 6.53 mg/m**2, respectively) than in the southern Indian Ocean (medians: 1.0 * 10**3 /m**2 and 0.06 mg/m**2, respectively). Metazoan diversity was also significantly higher in the western Weddell Sea. Furthermore, the two regions differed significantly in terms of meiofauna community composition, as revealed through multivariate analyses. The overall diversity of sympagic meiofauna was high, and integrated abundance and biomass of total meiofauna were also high in both regions (0.6 - 178.6 * 10**3/m**2 and ... : Project: 'The role of sympagic meiofauna for the flow of organic matter and energy in the Antarctic and Arctic sea-ice foodwebs' (Project No WE 2536 / 11-1, -2, I. Werner and M. Spindler, Institute for Polar Ecology, Kiel, Germany); funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)Data extracted in the frame of a joint ICSTI/PANGAEA IPY effort, see http://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.150150 ... |
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