Marine fish diversity on the Scotian Shelf, Canada

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 305-321

  Shackell, Nancy L ^a   Frank, Kenneth T ^a  

^a BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Census; Conservation; Diversity surrogates; Marine fish diversity; Species accumulation curve

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ICHTHYOFAUNA; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADA;

EID: 0041848501     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.554     Document Type: Article

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