Potential influence of effluents from Longyearbyen on the benthic fauna in Adventfjorden, Svalbard

• Main Author: Dahl, Jan Wiggo
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Universitetet i Tromsø 2007
• Subjects: Arctic; benthic macrofauna; Capitella capitata; organic pollution; Chaetozone sp; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480::Økologi: 488; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480::Marinbiologi: 497; Svalbard; Longyearbyen; Bray; Isfjord; Adventfjorden; Isfjord*
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/630

Benthic macrofaunal communities,sampled in 1998 and 2005 in Adventfjorden, a small sidearm to the Isfjord-complex, were compared. The samples were collected in various distance from the main sewage discharge point from the settlement of Longyearbyen. There has been a huge population increase in Long...