Assemblage structure of eastern Pacific groundfishes on the U.S. continental slope in relation to physical and environmental variables

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 317-332

  Tolimieri, Nick ^a   Levin, Phillip S ^a  

^a ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANNUAL VARIATION; ASSEMBLY RULE; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; FISH; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

CALIFORNIA; CAPE BLANCO; CAPE MENDOCINO; NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; POINT CONCEPTION; UNITED STATES;

ALBATROSSIA PECTORALIS; ALEPOCEPHALIDAE; ALEPOCEPHALUS TENEBROSUS; ANOPLOPOMA FIMBRIA; APRISTURUS BRUNNEUS; BATHYRAJA INTERRUPTA; BATHYRAJA TRACHURA; CHONDRICHTHYES; CORYPHAENOIDES ACROLEPIS; EMBASSICHTHYS BATHYBIUS; GLYPTOCEPHALUS ZACHIRUS; HYDROLAGUS COLLIEI; LYCODES CORTEZIANUS; MACROURIDAE; MERLUCCIUS PRODUCTUS; MICROSTOMUS PACIFICUS; PAROPHRYS VETULA; PLEURONECTOIDEI; RAJA RHINA; REINHARDTIUS STOMIAS; SEBASTES ALUTUS; SEBASTES AURORA; SEBASTES CRAMERI; SEBASTES DIPLOPROA; SEBASTES GOODEI; SEBASTES JORDANI; SEBASTES SAXICOLA; SEBASTOLOBUS ALASCANUS; SEBASTOLOBUS ALTIVELIS; SOLEIDAE; SQUALUS; SQUALUS ACANTHIAS;

EID: 33845692938     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T05-092.1     Document Type: Article

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