Community level response to climate change: The long-term study of the fish and crustacean community of the Bristol Channel

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 400, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 78-89

  Henderson, P A ^a,b   Seaby, R M H ^a   Somes, J R ^a  

^a PISCES CONSERVATION LTD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bristol Channel; Community ecology; Environmental change; Fish; Impingement; Macro crustaceans; Population dynamics; Power station; Severn estuary

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRUSTACEAN; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DOMINANCE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; POWER PLANT; SEAWATER; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BRISTOL CHANNEL; ENGLAND; SEVERN ESTUARY; SOMERSET; UNITED KINGDOM;

CRUSTACEA;

EID: 79955082896     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2011.02.028     Document Type: Review

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