Fishery stability, local extinctions, and shifts in community structure in skates

Conservation Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 283-293

  Dulvy, Nicholas K ^a,c   Metcalfe, Julian D ^b   Glanville, Jamie ^a   Pawson, Mike G ^b   Reynolds, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHERY; FRANCE; SPECIES ABUNDANCE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EXTINCTION; FISHERY; POPULATION DECLINE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

DIPTERUS BATIS; DIPTERUS OXYRHYNCHUS; ROSTRORAJA ALBA;

EID: 0034106437     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2000.98540.x     Document Type: Article

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