Modification of marine benthos by trawling: Toward a generalization for the deep ocean?

Ecological Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1824-1839

  Cryer, Martin ^a   Hartill, Bruce ^a   O'Shea, Steve ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bay of Plenty (New Zealand); Biodiversity; Canonical correspondence analysis; Deep water fisheries; Direct gradient analysis; Effects of fishing; Marine benthos and deep sea trawling; Redundancy analysis; Trawler fishing and benthic community structure

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; BOTTOM TRAWLING; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; PHYSICAL DISTURBANCE;

(NORTHEAST); NEW ZEALAND;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036991120     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2002)012[1824:MOMBBT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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