Environmental heterogeneity and species responses to fishing disturbance: Are the effects of clam harvesting spatially consistent?

Fisheries Research

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 55-70

  Gutiérrez, Jorge L ^a   Palomo, M Gabriela ^a   Iribarne, Oscar O ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Artisanal fishery; Clam harvesting; Disturbance; Field experiments; Heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

CLAM FISHERY; DISTURBANCE; FISHING; HARVESTING; HETEROGENEITY; NONTARGET ORGANISM;

BIVALVIA; CHASMAGNATHUS GRANULATA; CYRTOGRAPSUS; CYRTOGRAPSUS ANGULATUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); LAEONEREIS; LAEONEREIS ACUTA; POLYCHAETA; SOLECURTIDAE; SOLENIDAE; TAGELUS; TAGELUS PLEBEIUS;

EID: 1042278675     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2003.08.005     Document Type: Article

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