Nested scales of spatial heterogeneity in juvenile walleye pollock Theragra chalcogramma in the southeastern Bering Sea

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 484, Issue , 2013, Pages 219-238

  Benoit Bird, Kelly J ^a   McIntosh, Neal E ^a   Heppell, Scott A ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bering Sea; Patchiness; Schooling; Spatial structure; Walleye pollock

Indexed keywords

GROUP SIZE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HETEROGENEITY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; JUVENILE; PELAGIC FISH; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ALASKA; BERING SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIBILOF ISLANDS; UNITED STATES;

POLLACHIUS; THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA;

EID: 84879354283     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10319     Document Type: Article

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