Distribution of Bipinnaria and Pilidium in Relation to Physical Structure and UV-B Light in the Water Column off Anvers Island, Antarctica

• Main Author: Jaeckle, William
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ IWU 2008
• Subjects: Biology; Physiology; Antarctic; Anvers; Anvers Island; Austral; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/bio_scholarship/28; https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1027&context=bio_scholarship

Feeding larvae of Antarctic bottom invertebrates have proven to be scarce in the plankton and consequently our knowledge of their ecology is limited. We collected bipinnaria larvae assignable to the genus Odontaster and several types of pilidium larvae of nemertean worms in quantitative net tows tak...