Seasonal and temporal trends in metrics of fish community for otter-trawl discards in a Mediterranean ecosystem

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 539-550

  Tsagarakis, K ^a,b   Machias, A ^a   Giannoulaki, M ^a   Somarakis, S ^a   Karakassis, I ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bycatch; Community metrics; Trophic level

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FISH; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MUSTELID; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES; TRAWLING; TROPHIC LEVEL;

IONIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ARGENTINA SPHYRAENA; CARNIVORA; LEPIDOTRIGLA CAVILLONE; MERLUCCIUS MERLUCCIUS; MULLUS BARBATUS;

EID: 44649175652     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsn023     Document Type: Article

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