Comparison of fish and mobile macroinvertebrates associated with seagrass and adjacent sand at St. Catherine bay, Jersey (English channel): Emphasis on commercial species

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1333-1341

  Jackson, Emma L ^a   Rowden, Ashley A ^a,c   Attrill, Martin J ^a   Bossy, Simon F ^b   Jones, Malcolm B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b States Jersey Dept of Agric/Fish   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL SPECIES; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FISH; MACROINVERTEBRATE; SEAGRASS MEADOW;

UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALIA; CANTHARUS; CRANGON; CRANGON CRANGON; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); FARFANTEPENAEUS AZTECUS; HALOPHILA; HYPEROGLYPHE POROSA; SPONDYLIOSOMA CANTHARUS; ZOSTERA; ZOSTERA MARINA;

EID: 0038418280     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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