Fishing effects in northeast Atlantic shelf seas: Patterns in fishing effort, diversity and community structure. VII. The effects of trawling disturbance on the fauna associated with the tubeheads of serpulid worms

Fisheries Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 195-205

  Kaiser, M J ^a   Cheney, K ^b   Spence, F E ^a   Edwards, D B ^b   Radford, K ^b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biogenic structure; Bottom trawling; Physical disturbance; Serpulid tubeheads

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FISHING EFFORT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRAWLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032994626     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-7836(98)00212-4     Document Type: Article

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