Use of fishes as sampling tools for understanding biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in the ocean

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 454, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-18

  Cook, A M ^a   Bundy, A ^a  

^a BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Ecosystem; Environmental factors; Marine; Species richness; Survey

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATA SET; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FINFISH; FISHERY SURVEY; INVERTEBRATE; LIFE HISTORY; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARINE PARK; RESEARCH VESSEL; RESOURCE USE; SAMPLING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES INVENTORY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRAWLING;

INVERTEBRATA; PISCES;

EID: 84861393798     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09773     Document Type: Article

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