COMMUNITIES OF BENTHIC FAUNA IN THE WESTERN BERING SEA (Soovshchestva Donnoi Fauny Zapadnoi)

The data on the composition and distribution of the bottom fauna in the western Bering Sea were received in 1950-1952. During that period 256 stations were occupied. One hundred seventy-three quantitative samples of the bottom fauna were taken with large bottom-sampler 'Ocean-50' and Peter...

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Main Authors: Filatova,Z. A., Barsanova,N. G.
Other Authors: NAVAL OCEANOGRAPHIC OFFICE WASHINGTON D C
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1969
Subjects:
Biological Oceanography
(*OCEAN BOTTOM
*AQUATIC ANIMALS)
(*MARINE BIOLOGY
*BERING SEA)
USSR
OCEAN BOTTOM SAMPLING
ECOLOGY
DISTRIBUTION
*BENTHOS
TRANSLATIONS
Arctic
Bering Sea
Pacific
Petersen
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0699863
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Summary:The data on the composition and distribution of the bottom fauna in the western Bering Sea were received in 1950-1952. During that period 256 stations were occupied. One hundred seventy-three quantitative samples of the bottom fauna were taken with large bottom-sampler 'Ocean-50' and Petersen grab and 64 samples were gathered with Sigsbye trawl. Forty-six of the stations were occupied at the depths exceeding 1000m and 38 of them--at depths exceeding 2000m. Eighteen communities of the bottom fauna were established in western Bering Sea. True oceanic deep-sea species are dominant in the abyssal bottom-fauna communities of the western Bering Sea. Some species living presumably on the slope of the shelf are the leading forms of bathyal communities. A great many arctic-circumpolar, arctic-boreal, and north-boreal Pacific species of the bottom fauna are part of the composition of the shallow-water communities of the western Bering Sea. (Author) Trans. of Akademiya Nauk SSSR. Institut Okeanologii. Trudy, v69 p6-97 1964, by M. Slessers.

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