Biodiversity and distribution of the deep-sea fauna in the Sea of Japan and in the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench area with focus on Isopoda as a model organism

• Main Author: Elsner, Nikolaus
• Other Authors: Brandt, Angelika (Prof. Dr.)
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky 2014
• Subjects: Kurilengraben; Kurilen-Kamtschatka-Graben; Epibenthosschlitten; Kuril-Kamchatka Trench; epibenthic sledge; 590 Tiere (Zoologie); 42.65 Tiergeographie; Tierökologie; Tiefsee; Asseln; Pazifischer Ozean <Nordwest &gt; Vielfalt; Verbreitung; Meeresbiologie; Japanisches Meer; Abyssal; Ranzenkrebse; Bathyal; ddc:590; Pacific; Oyashio; Kamchatka; Kamtschatka
• Online Access: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-70082; https://ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de/handle/ediss/5626

The aim of this dissertation is to analyze the diversity and distribution of the deep-sea fauna of the Northwest Pacific, more specifically the Sea of Japan and the abyssal plain adjacent to the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench. Deep-sea benthic structure of both areas is analyzed at higher taxonomic level an...