Habitat and infauna prey availability for flatfishes in the northern Bering Sea

Polar Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1769-1784

  Yeung, Cynthia ^a   Yang, Mei Sun ^a  

^a ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Benthic communities; Bottom trawl survey; Climate; Diets; Infauna; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922080164     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: 14322056     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-014-1560-4     Document Type: Article

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