Identifying essential fish habitat for small pelagic species in Spanish Mediterranean waters

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 612, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 171-184

  Bellido, Jose M ^a   Brown, Alex M ^b   Valavanis, Vasilis D ^c   Giráldez, Ana ^d   Pierce, Graham J ^b,e   Iglesias, Magdalena ^f   Palialexis, Andreas ^c  

^a Instituto Español de Oceanografía   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^d Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga   (Spain)

^e Instituto Español de Oceanografía   (Spain)

^f Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anchovy; Environment; Essential fish habitat; Mediterranean; Sardine

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CHLOROPHYLL; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; FOOD ADDITIVES; MAPS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; OCEAN HABITATS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PORPHYRINS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM VARIABLES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SECURITY OF DATA; SURVEYS;

ACOUSTIC SURVEYS; ADDITIVE MODELS; ANCHOVY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONING; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; ESSENTIAL FISH HABITAT; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITIES; MEDITERRANEAN; MULTI-VARIATE ANALYSIS; PELAGIC SPECIES; SARDINA PILCHARDUS; SARDINE; SEA SURFACES; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SMALL PELAGIC FISH; SPANISH;

FISH;

ABUNDANCE; ANNUAL VARIATION; CONTINENTAL SHELF; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; FISHERY SURVEY; GIS; HABITAT; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MEDITERRANEAN WATER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PELAGIC FISH; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN COAST [SPAIN]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ENGRAULIDAE; ENGRAULIS ENCRASICOLUS; SARDINA PILCHARDUS;

EID: 48849101114     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-008-9481-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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