Dredging for edible cockles (Cerastoderma edule) on intertidal flats: Short-term consequences of fisher patch-choice decisions for target and non-target benthic fauna

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1735-1742

  Kraan, Casper ^a   Piersma, Theunis ^b   Dekinga, Anne ^a   Koolhaas, Anita ^a   Van Der Meer, Jaap ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cockle dredging; Intertidal macrozoobenthos; Patch choice; Short term effects; Wadden Sea

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BENTHOS; BIVALVE; DREDGING; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MACROBENTHOS; NONTARGET ORGANISM; PATCH USE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; NORTH SEA; WADDEN SEA; WESTERN EUROPE;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; CERASTODERMA EDULE; TELLINA TENUIS;

EID: 36648999316     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsm153     Document Type: Article

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