Biodiversity and species-environment relationships of the demersal fish assemblage at the Great Meteor Seamount (subtropical NE Atlantic), sampled by different trawls

Marine Biology

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 185-199

  Fock, H ^a   Uiblein, F ^b   Koster F ^c   Von Westernhagen, H ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCH COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEMERSAL FISH; GEAR SELECTIVITY; ICHTHYOFAUNA; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

CAPROS APER; ICHTHYOFAUNA; MACRORAMPHOSUS SCOLOPAX; SCOLOPAX; TRACHURUS PICTURATUS;

EID: 0036934456     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-002-0804-y     Document Type: Article

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