Complex habitat boosts scallop recruitment in a fully protected marine reserve

Marine Biology

Volumn 158, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1767-1780

  Howarth, Leigh M ^a   Wood, Howard L ^b   Turner, Alexander P ^a   Beukers Stewart, Bryce D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b Whiting Bay ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGE CLASS; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOMASS; BIVALVE; BODY SIZE; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; CORALLINE ALGA; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HABITAT STRUCTURE; JUVENILE; MACROALGA; MARINE PARK; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS);

PECTINIDAE;

EID: 85027956487     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-011-1690-y     Document Type: Article

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