Robustness of fish assemblages derived from three hierarchical agglomerative clustering algorithms performed on Icelandic groundfish survey data

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 189-200

  Singh, Warsha ^a   Hjorleifsson, Einar ^b   Stefansson, Gunnar ^c  

^a United Nations University Fisheries Training Programme   (Iceland)

^b MARINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iceland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Dendrograms; Fisheries management; Habitat preferences; Hierarchical classification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; BOOTSTRAPPING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA SET; FISH; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT SELECTION; MAP; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SMOOTHING; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 79951996222     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsq144     Document Type: Article

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