Delineating the habitat of demersal fish assemblages with acoustic seabed technologies

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 68, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1973-1985

  Van Der Kooij, Jeroen ^a,b   Kupschus, Sven ^a   Scott, Beth E ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

acoustic ground discrimination systems (AGDS); beam trawl; canonical correspondence analysis; fisheries spatial management; QTC View ; stratified random survey

Indexed keywords

BIOTOPE; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DATA SET; DEMERSAL FISH; FISHING; HABITAT TYPE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEAFLOOR; SURVEY; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

EID: 80051999558     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsr124     Document Type: Article

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