Environmental influence on the bottom and near-bottom megafauna communities of the Dogger Bank: A long-term survey

Helgoland Marine Research

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 503-511

  Sonnewald, Moritz ^a,b   Türkay, Michael ^a,b  

^a BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^b SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beam trawl survey; Biodiversity loss; Climate sensitivity; Dogger Bank; Megafauna; North Sea

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SURVEY METHOD; TEMPERATURE; TRAWLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; DOGGER BANK; NORTH SEA;

EID: 84870333247     PISSN: 1438387X     EISSN: 14383888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10152-011-0286-8     Document Type: Article

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