Patterns and drivers of the demersal fish community of chesapeake bay

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 481, Issue , 2013, Pages 161-180

  Buchheister, Andre ^a   Bonzek, Christopher F ^a   Gartland, James ^a   Latour, Robert J ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottom trawl survey; Chesapeake Bay; Community structure; Demersal fishes; Environmental conditions; Hypoxia; Species diversity; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BOTTOM TRAWLING; CATCH PER UNIT EFFORT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DEMERSAL FISH; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FLATFISH; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PERCIFORM; SALINITY; SPAWNING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84877610033     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10253     Document Type: Article

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