Catchability of pelagic trawls for sampling deep-living nekton in the mid-North Atlantic

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 377-389

  Heino, M ^a,b,c   Porteiro, F M ^d   Sutton, T T ^e   Falkenhaug, T ^b   Godo O R ^b   Piatkowski, U ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^e VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^f GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Catchability; Gear comparison; Mid Atlantic Ridge; Nekton; Pelagic ecosystems; Sampling

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CATCHABILITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MESH SIZE; NEKTON; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; TAXONOMY; TRAWLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; AZORES; ICELAND; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE; PORTUGAL;

CEPHALOPODA; MARTES PENNANTI; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 79951991621     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsq089     Document Type: Article

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