Testing hypotheses about temporary and persistent effects of otter trawling on infauna: changes in diversity rather than abundance

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 385, Issue , 2009, Pages 51-64

  Ragnarsson, Stefán Áki ^a   Lindegarth, Mats ^b  

^a MARINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Analysis of variance; Diversity; Experimental fishing; Iceland; Infauna; Otter trawl; Power analysis; Variability

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIVALVE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIVERSITY INDEX; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELD METHOD; FISHING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MACROBENTHOS; MUSTELID; SHALLOW WATER; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; TRAWLING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FAXAFLOI BAY; ICELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

BIVALVIA; CARNIVORA; THYASIRA FLEXUOSA;

EID: 67650587789     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08056     Document Type: Article

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