Mesoscale geographical patterns in the distribution of pandalid shrimps Plesionika spp. in the Western Mediterranean

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 247, Issue , 2003, Pages 151-158

  Carbonell, Aina ^a   Palmer, Miquel ^b   Abelló, Pere ^c   Torres, Pedro ^d   Alemany, R ^a   Gil De Sola, Luis ^d  

^a Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^c INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^d Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga   (Spain)

Author keywords

Crustacea; Mapping; Multivariate analysis; Pandalidae; Spatial patterns; Species abundance environment relationships

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM TRAWLING; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DEPTH; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

(WEST); MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

CRUSTACEA; HETEROCARPUS; INVERTEBRATA; PANDALIDAE; PLESIONIKA; PLESIONIKA EDWARDSI; PLESIONIKA GIGLIOLII; PLESIONIKA HETEROCARPUS; PLESIONIKA MARTIA; VALENCIA;

EID: 0037418120     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps247151     Document Type: Article

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