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A description of the shelf edge groundfish habitat along the southeastern United States
Barans, C.A.; Vernon, J.H.Jr. (1984). A description of the shelf edge groundfish habitat along the southeastern United States. N.E. Gulf Sci. 7(1): 77-96
In: Northeast Gulf Science. Marine Environmental Science Consortium of Alabama: Dauphin Island. ISSN 0148-9836, more
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Keywords
    Composition > Community composition
    Data > Oceanographic data > Bathymetric data
    Fisheries > Demersal fisheries
    Habitat
    Population characteristics > Population density
    Surveys > Environmental surveys
    Surveys > Fishery surveys
    Topographic features > Submarine features > Continental shelves
    Topography > Topography (geology) > Bottom topography
    Pisces [WoRMS]
    Marine/Coastal
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  • Barans, C.A.
  • Vernon, J.H.Jr.
Abstract
    The rocky outcrops at the shelf edge along the southeastern United States provide a diverse and complex series of subhabitats inhabited by groundfish of both commercial and recreational importance. Reef morphology ranged from rounded outcrops of relatively low relief (less than 0.5 m) to steep scarps with as much as 15 m relief. Groundfish species composition and density of a community off Charleston, S.C. were determined by counts from underwater television.
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