Fishing effects in northeast Atlantic shelf seas: Patterns in fishing effort, diversity and community structure. V. Changes in structure of the North Sea groundfish species assemblage between 1925 and 1996

Fisheries Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 153-183

  Greenstreet, Simon P R ^a   Spence, Fiona E ^a   McMillan, Julie A ^a  

^a MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community structure; Dominance; Fishing impact; Non target fish assemblage; North Sea; Species diversity; Whole fish assemblage

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FISHING EFFORT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

NORTH SEA;

PISCES;

EID: 0032999469     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-7836(98)00210-0     Document Type: Article

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