Depth zonation and bathymetric trends of deep-sea megafaunal scavengers of the Hawaiian Islands

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 251-266

  Yeh, John ^a   Drazen, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Baited camera; Bathymetric trends; Depth zonation; Hawaii; Scavenger

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; CAMERAS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; OXYGEN;

BAITED CAMERA; BATHYMETRIC TRENDS; DEPTH ZONATION; HAWAII; SCAVENGER;

SCAVENGING;

ABUNDANCE; ADAPTATION; BAIT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DEEP SEA; DOMINANCE; PHOTOGRAPH; SCAVENGER; TELEOST;

HAWAII [(ISL) HAWAIIAN ISLANDS]; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

ARISTEIDAE; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HISTIOBRANCHUS; NEOLITHODES; SYNAPHOBRANCHUS AFFINIS; TELEOSTEI; ZOARCIDAE;

EID: 58149279589     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2008.08.005     Document Type: Article

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