Importance of using multiple sampling methodologies for estimating of fish community composition in offshore wind power construction areas of the Baltic Sea

Ambio

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 634-636

  Andersson, Mathias H ^a   Gullström, Martin ^a   Asplund, Maria E ^b   Öhman, Marcus C ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FISH; OFFSHORE STRUCTURE; SAMPLING; WIND POWER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENVIRONMENT; FISH; POPULATION DENSITY; SEA; SWEDEN; WIND;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ENERGY-GENERATING RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT; FISHES; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DENSITY; SWEDEN; WIND;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

EID: 38349056853     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2007)36[634:IOUMSM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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25. This synopsis was not peer reviewed.