Shifts in open-ocean fish communities coinciding with the commencement of commercial fishing

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 835-847

  Ward, Peter ^a,b   Myers, Ransom A ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BUREAU OF RURAL SCIENCES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abundance; Biomass; Ecosystem stability; Epipelagic zone; Fishery surveys; Longlining; Pelagic environment; Predator prey interactions

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; FISHERY SURVEY; FISHING; ICHTHYOFAUNA; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SIZE STRUCTURE;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

CHONDRICHTHYES; DASYATIS; PRIONACE GLAUCA; PTEROPLATYTRYGON VIOLACEA; SCOMBRIDAE; SCOMBRIDAE GEN. SP.;

EID: 16844369741     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-0746     Document Type: Article

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