Latitudinal trends and temporal shifts in the catch composition of bottom trawls conducted on the eastern Bering Sea shelf

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 65-70, Issue , 2012, Pages 251-259

  Stevenson, Duane E ^a   Lauth, Robert R ^a  

^a ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Community structure; Epibenthos; Fishes; Macroinvertebrates; Subarctic

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; BERING SEA; CHUKCHI SEA; COLD POOL; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; ENVIRONMENTAL SHIFTS; EPIBENTHOS; FISH CATCH; FISH COMMUNITIES; FISH FAUNA; HIGHER LATITUDES; INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITIES; MACROINVERTEBRATES; MEGAFAUNA; NORTHERN LATITUDES; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SEA FLOOR; SEA STARS; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SUBARCTIC; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DATA; TEMPERATURE SHIFT; TEMPORAL SHIFTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FISH; SOCIAL SCIENCES; STARS; SURVEYS;

FISHERIES;

BIOMASS; BOTTOM TRAWLING; CATCH COMPOSITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD POOL; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRAB; DEEP-SEA BENTHOS; ECHINODERM; GADOID; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SEAFLOOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBARCTIC REGION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

BERING SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ASTERIIDAE; ASTEROIDEA; CHIONOECETES; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GADIDAE; HYAS; INVERTEBRATA; OREGONIIDAE; PISCES;

EID: 84861576074     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2012.02.021     Document Type: Article

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