Short-term temporal variability in fish community structure at two western Mediterranean slope locations

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 866-880

  Moranta, Joan ^a   Massutí, Enric ^a   Stefanescu, Constantí ^b   Palmer, Miquel ^c   Morales Nin, Beatriz ^c  

^a Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares   (Spain)

^b Museu Granollers Ciencies Naturals   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Assemblage; Deep sea; Fish; Mesoscale; Spatio temporal variations; Western mediterranean

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ECOLOGY; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SUBMARINES;

ASSEMBLAGE; DEEP-SEA; MESOSCALE; SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIATIONS; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN;

AQUACULTURE;

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEEP-SEA BENTHOS; DEMERSAL FISH; POPULATION DENSITY; SHARK; SIZE STRUCTURE; SLOPE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUBMARINE CANYON; TAXONOMY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ALGERIAN BASIN; BALEARIC ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

CENTROSCYMNUS COELOLEPIS; GALEUS MELASTOMUS; HELICOLENUS DACTYLOPTERUS; HOPLOSTETHUS MEDITERRANEUS;

EID: 44749089164     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2008.04.001     Document Type: Article

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