BENTHIC BIOMASS
DATA
Ten
sets of benthic biomass data were arranged into an Access database and mapped
using ArcInfo Geographical Interface Software (GIS). The following are a list
of the data sources:
(1) Broad, A.C. 1975-1980. Intertidal Organisms and
Habitats (File 030). National Oceanographic Data Center. Washington, DC.
(2) Carey, A.G. 1971. Websec-71. Unpublished data.
(3) Carey, A.G., M.A. Boudrias, J.C. Kern, R.E. Ruff.
1984. Selected ecological studies on continental shelf benthos and sea ice
fauna in the southwestern Beaufort Sea. Final Report. Outer Continental Shelf
Environmental Assessment Program. Fairbanks, AK, 23:1-164.
(4) Feder, HM, RH Day, SC Jewett, K McCumby, S McGee,
SV Schonberg. 1982. Infauna of the northeastern Bering and southeastern Chukchi
Seas. Final Report. Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program.
Fairbanks, AK, 120 p.
(5) Grebmeier, J.M. 1987. The ecology of benthic carbon
cycling in the northern Bering and Chukchi Seas. Ph.D. dissertation, Inst.
Mar. Sci., University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
(6) Grebmeier, J.M. 1992. Studies of pelagic-benthic
coupling extended onto the Soviet continental shelf in the Bering and Chukchi
Seas. Cont. Shelf Res. 13:653-668.
(7) Grebmeier, J.M. and L.W. Cooper. 1995. Influence
of the St. Lawrence Island Polynya on the Bering Sea Benthos. J. Geophys.
Res. 100:4439-4460.
(8) Grebmeier, J.M. and K.H. Dunton. 2000. Benthic processes
in the northern Bering/Chukchi Seas: Status and global change, in H.P. Huntington
(ed), Impacts of Changes in Sea Ice and Other Environmental Parameters in
the Arctic. Marine Mammal Commission Workshop, Girdwood, Alaska, 15-17 February
2000. 18-93.
(9) Grebmeier, J.M. and L.W. Cooper. 2001. Sediment
biogeochemical tracers and carbon cycling in the Bering and Chukchi seas during
1988 and 1993. In: Results of the Fourth Joint US-Russia Bering & Chukchi
Seas Expedition (BERPAC), Summer 1993. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington,
DC. (in press)
(10) Wacasey, J.W. 1974. Biological productivity of
the southern Beaufort Sea: Zoobenthic Studies. Beaufort Sea Technical Report
#12b. Department of the Environment, Victoria, B.C., 39 p.
