Ecological meltdown in the firth of clyde, Scotland: Two centuries of change in a coastal marine ecosystem

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Thurstan, Ruth H ^a   Roberts, Callum M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC COD; ATLANTIC HERRING; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FISH; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHING; FLATFISH; FOOD INDUSTRY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MELANOGRAMMUS AEGLEFINUS; NEPHROPIDAE; NEPHROPS NORVEGICUS; NONHUMAN; PECTEN MAXIMUS; POLLACHIUS VIRENS; PSETTA MAXIMA; SCALLOP; SHIP; TRAWL FISHERY; TURBOT; UNITED KINGDOM; ANIMAL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FLOUNDER; SEA;

CLUPEA HARENGUS; CLUPEIDAE; GADIDAE; GADUS MORHUA; MELANOGRAMMUS; MELANOGRAMMUS AEGLEFINUS; NEPHROPIDAE; NEPHROPS; NEPHROPS NORVEGICUS; PECTEN MAXIMUS; PECTINIDAE; PLATICHTHYS FLESUS; PLEURONECTIDAE; PLEURONECTOIDEI; POLLACHIUS VIRENS; SCOPHTHALMIDAE; SCOPHTHALMUS MAXIMUS;

ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FISHERIES; FLATFISHES; FLOUNDER; GADUS MORHUA; OCEANS AND SEAS; SCOTLAND;

EID: 77955644927     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011767     Document Type: Article

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