Physical disturbance and marine benthic communities: The effects of mechanical harvesting of cockles on non-target benthic infauna

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 497-517

  Hall, Stephen J ^a,b   Harding, Melanie J C ^a  

^a MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

benthic disturbance; fishing disturbance; scale

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; COCKLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DREDGING; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HARVESTING; MECHANICAL COCKLE HARVESTING; NON-TARGET FAUNA; PHYSICAL DISTURBANCE;

BIVALVIA; CERASTODERMA EDULE;

EID: 0030618051     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2404893     Document Type: Article

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