Macrofaunal communities on the continental shelf and slope of the southeastern Weddell Sea, Antarctica
Galéron, J.; Herman, R.; Arnaud, P.M.; Arntz, W.E.; Hain, S.; Klages, M. (1992). Macrofaunal communities on the continental shelf and slope of the southeastern Weddell Sea, Antarctica. Polar Biol. 12(2): 283-290 In: Polar Biology. Springer-Verlag: Berlin; Heidelberg. ISSN 0722-4060; e-ISSN 1432-2056, more |  |
| Authors | | Top | - Galéron, J., more
- Herman, R., more
- Arnaud, P.M.
| - Arntz, W.E.
- Hain, S.
- Klages, M.
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| Abstract | During the third leg of the "European Polarstern Study" (EPOS leg 3) in the austral summer season 1989, benthic macrofaunal communities were sampled from the Elephant Island area (61-degrees-southern latitude) and from Kapp Norvegia (71-degrees-southern latitude) to Halley Bay (75-degrees-30' southern latitude) using a commercial bottom trawl and an Agassiz trawl. Thirty-six trawl samples from a depth range of about 200-2,000 m were considered, with most of the samples being from the shelf and upper slope. Multivariate analysis techniques (clustering and TWINSPAN) discriminated between an eastern and a southern community in which parallel subgroups can be distinguished at increasing distance from the ice shelf. |
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