Changes in the structure of fish assemblages in a bathyal site of the Ionian Sea (eastern Mediterranean)

Fisheries Research

Volumn 66, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 245-260

  Madurell, T ^a   Cartes, J E ^b   Labropoulou, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Deep sea communities; Demersal fish assemblages; Eastern Mediterranean; Seasonality; Suprabenthos

Indexed keywords

BATHYAL ZONE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

IONIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

CAELORINCHUS; CAELORINCHUS CAELORHINCUS; CHLOROPHTHALMUS; CHLOROPHTHALMUS AGASSIZI; COELORHYNCHUS COELORHYNCHUS; DACTYLOPTERUS; HELICOLENUS; HELICOLENUS DACTYLOPTERUS; HOPLOSTETHUS; HOPLOSTETHUS MEDITERRANEUS; HYMENOCEPHALUS; HYMENOCEPHALUS ITALICUS; NEZUMIA; NEZUMIA SCLERORHYNCHUS; PHYCIS; PHYCIS BLENNOIDES;

EID: 0742288278     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-7836(03)00205-4     Document Type: Article

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