Novel biodiversity baselines outpace models of fish distribution in Arctic waters

Jørgen S Christiansen1, Erik Bonsdorff2, Ingvar Byrkjedal3

  • 1Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, NO-9037, Tromsø, Norway. jorgen.s.christiansen@uit.no.

Die Naturwissenschaften
|January 14, 2016
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