Fishing effects in northeast Atlantic shelf seas: Patterns in fishing effort, diversity and community structure. IV. Can comparisons of species diversity be used to assess human impacts on demersal fish faunas?

Fisheries Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 135-152

  Rogers, S I ^a   Maxwell, D ^a   Rijnsdorp, A D ^b   Damm, U ^c   Vanhee, W ^d  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUT FÜR SEEFISCHEREI   (Germany)

^d Fisheries Research Station   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Assemblage; Beam trawl; Demersal; Diversity; Fishing impact

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FISHING EFFORT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

CHELIDONICHTHYES KUMU; ELASMOBRANCHII; GADUS MORHUA; PISCES; PLEURONECTES PLATESSA; SCYLIORHINUS CANICULA; SQUALUS ACANTHIAS;

EID: 0033036681     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-7836(98)00209-4     Document Type: Article

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