Zonation in a cryptic Antarctic intertidal macrofaunal community
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Zonation in a cryptic Antarctic intertidal macrofaunal community
Despite the general view that the Antarctic intertidal conditions are too extreme to support obvious signs of macrofaunal life, recent studies have shown that intertidal communities can survive over annual cycles. The current study investigates distribution of taxa within a boulder cobble matrix, beneath the outer, scoured surface of the intertidal zone at Adelaide Island, west Antarctic Penins...
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عنوان ژورنال: Antarctic Science
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0954-1020,1365-2079
DOI: 10.1017/s0954102012000867