Fish fauna of the Severn Estuary. Are there long-term changes in abundance and species composition and are the recruitment patterns of the main marine species correlated?

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 258, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 15-37

  Potter, I C ^a   Bird, D J ^b   Claridge, P N ^c   Clarke, K R ^c   Hyndes, G A ^a   Newton, L C ^b  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Annual cyclical changes; Correlation profile analyses; Environmental variables; Estuary; Fish; Long term changes; Recruitment; Species compositions and abundances

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; SEA WATER;

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; ICHTHYOFAUNA; LONG-TERM CHANGE; RECRUITMENT; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; ESTUARY; FISH; LAMPREY; NONHUMAN; SALINITY; SAMPLING; SPECIES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

CALLOGOBIUS ATRATUS; CLUPEA HARENGUS; GADUS MORHUA; ICHTHYOFAUNA; LAMPETRA AYRESII; MERLANGIUS MERLANGUS; MUGILIDAE; PETROMYZONTIDAE; PLEURONECTOIDEI; POMATOSCHISTUS MINUTUS; SPRATTUS SPRATTUS; TRISOPTERUS ESMARKII; TRISOPTERUS MINUTUS;

EID: 0035970952     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0981(00)00343-9     Document Type: Article

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