A century later: Long-term change of an inshore temperate marine fish assemblage

Journal of Sea Research

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 187-194

  McHugh, Matthew ^a,b   Sims, David W ^a,c   Partridge, Julian C ^b   Genner, Martin J ^a,b  

^a THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coastal fisheries; Community structure; Length frequency distributions; Long term change; Overfishing

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BODY SIZE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; LENGTH-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MATURATION; OVERFISHING; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION SIZE; TAXONOMY; TELEOST; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TRAWLING;

ENGLISH CHANNEL;

CHONDRICHTHYES; ELASMOBRANCHII; PLEURONECTIFORMES; SCYLIORHINUS CANICULA; SQUATINA SQUATINA; SQUATINIDAE; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 79951949383     PISSN: 13851101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seares.2010.09.006     Document Type: Article

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