Shallow-Water Bryozoan Communities in a Glacier Fjord of West Svalbard, Norway: Species Composition and Effects of Environmental Factors

• Published in: Biology
• Main Authors: Olga Yu. Evseeva, Alexander G. Dvoretsky
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2023
• Subjects: Bryozoa; biodiversity; biomass; intertidal zone; driving factors; Barents Sea; Biology (General); QH301-705.5; Beneden; Lamarck; Norway; Svalbard; Van Beneden; glacier; Isfjord*; Isfjorden; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/biology12020185; https://doaj.org/article/55755f18966746cd9dda1ad2eecbe84a

Despite significant research efforts focused on benthic assemblages in West Spitsbergen, there is a lack of knowledge regarding the shallow water bryozoan communities in Grønfjorden, a glacier fjord belonging to the Isfjorden system, Norway. Here, we studied species composition, richness, distributi...