Effects of Oil and Chemically Treated Oil on Nearshore Under-Ice Meiofauna Studied in Situ

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Cross, William E., Martin, Carole M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1987
• Subjects: Algae; Animal distribution; Animal population; Canada. Baffin Island Oil Spill Project; Copepoda; Environmental impacts; Marine oil spills; Microbial ecology; Nematoda; Polychaeta; Sea ice ecology; Byron Bay; Labrador; Hatt; Cape; waters; Nunavut; Ragged Channel; Arctic; Baffin Island; Canada; Cape Hatt; Arctique*; Baffin; Sea ice; Copepods
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64873

Meiofauna collected during May 1982 in the soft bottom layer of nearshore landfast ice at Cape Hatt, northern Baffin Island, were dominated by cyclopoid copepods, harpacticoid copepods, nematodes and polychaete larvae (73.5, 15.4, 6.3 and 3.5% of total numbers respectively). Also included were rotif...