Deepwater demersal fish community collapse in Lake Huron

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 137, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1879-1890

  Riley, Stephen C ^a   Roseman, Edward F ^a   Nichols, S Jerrine ^a   O'Brien, Timothy P ^a   Kiley, Courtney S ^a   Schaeffer, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; BIOMASS; BOTTOM TRAWLING; DEEP WATER; DEMERSAL FISH; POPULATION DECLINE; TIME SERIES;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE HURON; NORTH AMERICA;

APOLLONIA MELANOSTOMUS; ETHEOSTOMA NIGRUM; NOTROPIS HUDSONIUS;

EID: 58149314197     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T07-141.1     Document Type: Article

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