Proceedings of Arctic Biodiversity Workshop: New Census of Marine Life Initiative
Table of Contents
Chapter
Page
Recommendations from the Arctic
Biodiversity Workshop
1
Introduction: Arctic Biodiversity Transect
5
The Census of Marine Life: Advancing Our
Understanding of Marine Biodiversity
15
ChEss: Biogeography of Deep-Water Chemosynthetic
Ecosystems, Census of Marine Life
25
Natural Geography in Nearshore Areas
(NaGISA):
The Nearshore Component of the Census of
Marine Life
35
Biodiversity of the Arctic Ocean
49
Biodiversity of Free-Living Invertebrates in
the
Far Eastern Seas and the Proposition of NaGISA
Transects around the Bering Sea
55
Biodiversity of the Commander Islands
and Bering Sea Coast of the Kamchatka
Peninsula by Russian Scientists
59
Arctic Benthic Diversity: Deep-Sea
Meiofauna and Shelf Macrofauna
67
Biodiversity in the American Arctic
75
The Hidden Ocean: Explorations under the Ice
of the Western Arctic. A Multidisciplinary Project
Funded by the NOAA Ocean Exploration Program
85
Canada and Arctic Marine Biodiversity Research
91
Arctic Deep-Sea Biodiversity Research:
The U.K. Perspective
103
Arctic Nearshore Biodiversity Research:
The U.K. and Scottish View
113
Aspects of Biological Diversity in Benthic
Communities: German Research Activities
in Arctic Deep-Sea Regions
121
Remarks to Macrobenthic Investigation
of the
Siberian Shelf Seas and Deep Arctic Basins with
Special Reference to the Kara Sea, Laptev Sea,
and Lomonosov Ridge Areas
127
Microalgae and Biodiversity in Polar Regions
131
Implementing the Microbial Food Web in the
Arctic Pelagic Ecosystem: A Case Study from
Disko Bay, Western Greenland
151
Participants
153
Index
155