Two methods traditionally employed to investigate functional diversity in marine benthic ecosystems are relative taxon composition analysis, which interprets changes in the …
Bottom trawling causes widespread physical disturbance of sediments in seas and oceans and affects benthic communities by removing target and non-target species and altering …
PJ Auster, RW Langton - American Fisheries Society Symposium, 1999 - fisheries.org
The 1996 Magnuson–Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act mandates that regional fishery management councils must designate essential fish habitat (EFH) for each …
S Jennings, TA Dinmore, DE Duplisea… - Journal of Animal …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 Trawling disturbance has wide‐ranging impacts on the marine environment and is well known to modify benthic habitat and community structure. This has led to speculation …
Bottom trawling causes chronic and widespread disturbance to the seabed in shallow shelf seas and could lead to changes in the trophic structure and function of benthic communities …
JS Link - ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Defining and attaining suitable management goals probably represent the most difficult part of ecosystem-based fisheries management. To achieve those goals we ultimately need to …
S de Juan, SF Thrush, M Demestre - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2007 - int-res.com
Trawling disturbs benthic communities, eliminating the most vulnerable organisms and modifying habitat structure. While the cumulative effects of disturbance resulting from …
RA Clark, CLJ Frid - Environmental reviews, 2001 - cdnsciencepub.com
Long-term data on the North Sea ecosystem are available for phytoplanktonic, zooplanktonic, benthic, fish, and seabird communities. Temporal changes in these have …
The functional diversity index has shown that the functional diversity of the macrobenthic community increased along a spatial gradient of distance from the Po river delta (Emilia …