Abstract
The interannual variability in peracarid (Crustacea: Malacostraca; Amphipoda, Isopoda, Cumacea, Tanaidacea) species composition and diversity on the South Greenland shelf was studied at four stations over a sampling period of 3years (2001, 2002 and 2004), using a Rauschert sled at depths of about 160m. The South Greenland peracarids were relatively stable over the 3years with respect to evenness and diversity. Moderate changes in temperature and salinity had negligible effects on the species composition, while sediment structure was found to be the most important environmental variable shaping the peracarid fauna.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 125-139 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Polar Biology |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jan 2010 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Brix for comments on earlier versions of the manuscript. Additional thanks to Prof. Angelika Brandt for supervising the Wrst author’s Ph.D. thesis, on which this paper is based, and for helpful comments on the manuscript. Thanks to four anonymous reviewers for their valuable constructive comments and suggestions. Special thanks to Dr. Gary Poore for improving the English on an earlier version of the manuscript, Eric dos Santos for his comments and to Dr. Christoph Stransky for his endless support during the entire time of Wrst author’s Ph.D. study. This work was partly funded by travel grants of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD, PKZ:D/05/43069) and the ArcOD project within the Census of Marine Life (CoML) programme.
Other keywords
- Greenland
- Peracarida
- Shelf
- Spatial and temporal variation
- Species distribution