Demersal fish diversity of the isolated Rockall plateau compared with the adjacent west coast shelf of Scotland

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 138-147

  Neat, Francis ^a   Campbell, Neil ^b  

^a MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bottom trawl survey; Community structure; Isolated shelf sea

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BOTTOM TRAWLING; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEMERSAL FISH; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LIFE HISTORY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; OCEANIC CURRENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ROCKALL TROUGH; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84860408973     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01699.x     Document Type: Article

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