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

• 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; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0699863

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.