Inter-season and interannual variations in fish and macrocrustacean community structure on a eastern English Channel sandy beach: Influence of environmental factors

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 721-730

  Selleslagh, Jonathan ^a   Amara, Rachid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU LITTORAL CÔTE D OPALE   (France)

Author keywords

community structure; eastern English Channel; environmental variables; fish; intertidal zone; macrocrustacea; temporal variability

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; ANNUAL VARIATION; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRUSTACEAN; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; PERCIFORM; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEASONAL VARIATION; TRAWLING;

ENGLISH CHANNEL; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

ALGAE; AMMODYTES TOBIANUS; CARCINUS MAENAS; CRANGON CRANGON; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HAPTOPHYCEAE; HYPOPTYCHIDAE; PHAEOCYSTIS GLOBOSA; PLEURONECTES; PLEURONECTES PLATESSA; POMATOSCHISTUS MICROPS; SPRATTUS SPRATTUS;

EID: 41549134112     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2007.11.004     Document Type: Article

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