Large-scale impacts of bottom trawling on shelf primary productivity

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 27, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 2198-2210

  Dounas, Costas ^a   Davies, Ian ^b   Triantafyllou, George ^a   Koulouri, Panayota ^a   Petihakis, George ^a   Arvanitidis, Christos ^a   Sourlatzis, George ^a   Eleftheriou, Anastasios ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bottom trawling; Ecosystem disturbance; Modelling; Nutrient recycling; Nutrient releases; Primary production; Resuspension

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM TRAWLING; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEAFLOOR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CRETE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; IRAKLION [CRETE]; IRAKLION BAY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34648836863     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2007.05.006     Document Type: Article

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