Structure and zonation of demersal fish assemblages off the Azores Archipelago (mid-Atlantic)

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 324, Issue , 2006, Pages 241-260

  Menezes, Gui M ^a   Sigler, Michael F ^b   Silva, Helder M ^a   Pinho, Mario R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^b NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Azores archipelago; Demersal fish assemblages; Fish distribution; Islands; Seamounts; Water masses; Zonation

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; DEMERSAL FISH; SEAMOUNT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AZORES; EURASIA; EUROPE; MACARONESIA; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33845234263     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps324241     Document Type: Article

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