Correlations between benthic habitats and demersal fish assemblages - A case study on the Dogger Bank (North Sea)

Journal of Sea Research

Volumn 80, Issue , 2013, Pages 12-24

  Sell, Anne F ^a   Kröncke, Ingrid ^b  

^a INSTITUT FÜR SEEFISCHEREI   (Germany)

^b SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Cluster Analysis; Community Ecology; Epifauna; Groundfish; Infauna

Indexed keywords

AUTECOLOGY; BENTHOS; BIOTIC FACTOR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DEMERSAL FISH; EPIFAUNA; FLATFISH; GADOID; HABITAT TYPE; HYDROGRAPH; PERCIFORM; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STOMACH CONTENT; TOPOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; DOGGER BANK; NORTH SEA;

BUGLOSSIDIUM LUTEUM; CITRUS LIMON; ECHIICHTHYS VIPERA; EUTRIGLA GURNARDUS; GADUS MORHUA; HIPPOGLOSSOIDES PLATESSOIDES; INVERTEBRATA; LIMANDA LIMANDA; MELANOGRAMMUS; MELANOGRAMMUS AEGLEFINUS; MERLANGIUS MERLANGUS; MICROSTOMUS KITT; PLEURONECTES; VIPERA;

EID: 84875857898     PISSN: 13851101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seares.2013.01.007     Document Type: Article

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