The Upper Sublittoral Zone of the Western Murmansk Region near Aynovy Islands (Results of Scuba Underwater Work) (Verkhnyaya Sublitoral Zapadnogo Murmana u Ainovykh Ostrovov (Rezultaty Podvodnykh Rabot s Primeneniem Akvalangov))

• Main Author: Propp,M. V.
• Other Authors: NAVAL OCEANOGRAPHIC OFFICE WASHINGTON D C
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1973
• Subjects: Biological Oceanography; (*OCEAN BOTTOM; *BIOASSAY); (*ARCTIC OCEAN ISLANDS; *ECOLOGY); OCEAN BOTTOM SAMPLING; ALGAE; AQUATIC ANIMALS; MARINE BIOLOGY; USSR; BENTHOS; BENTHONIC ZONE; BIOMASS; TRANSLATIONS; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Murmansk; Rabot; Verkhnyaya
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0759147; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0759147

The study was undertaken by aqualung divers to determine the reserves of commercially utilized seaweeds. Distribution of fauna and flora of the Aynovy Islands area of the western Murmansk region was investigated to a depth of 50 meters. Comparative estimates of the population density (amount of biomass per square meter) are given. Many warm-water species, not usually encountered in these latitudes, were found in this area. This region Murmansk region in a short summary. (Author) Trans. of Akademiya Nauk SSSR. Murmanskii Morskoi Biologicheskii Institut. Trudy, v5(9) p57-60 1964.