Implications of fisheries impacts to seabed biodiversity and ecosystem-based management

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 73, Issue , 2016, Pages i44-i50

  Thrush, Simon F ^a   Ellingsen, Kari E ^b   Davis, Kathryn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

biodiversity; cumulative disturbance; EBM; fishing impacts; regime shift; resilience

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FISHING INDUSTRY; HETEROGENEITY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; SEAFLOOR;

EID: 84960455716     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsv114     Document Type: Article

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