Environmental conditions and physiological tolerances of intertidal fauna in relation to shore zonation at Husvik, South Georgia
South Georgia, an extremely isolated island within the Antarctic Convergence, was covered by an extensive icecap until ~10,000 years ago. In consequence the depauperate intertidal fauna is of recent origin and consists almost entirely of brooders or direct developers which probably arrived as a resu...
Published in: | Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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Cambridge University Press
1996
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Online Access: | http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/515017/ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315400040923 |