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Relationships of the macrobenthos of Moreton Bay to prawns and to abiotic factors
Author(s) -
STEPHENSON W.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
australian journal of ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1442-9993
pISSN - 0307-692X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-9993.1980.tb01238.x
Subject(s) - macrobenthos , abiotic component , bay , prawn , crustacean , flux (metallurgy) , fishery , oceanography , environmental science , biology , ecology , chemistry , geology , abundance (ecology) , organic chemistry
Relationships are established between flux measures in macrobenthos and climatic variables, and between these measures and certain estimates of the catches of penaeid prawns. Cycles in flux do not appear to reflect inherent annual rhythms; positive flux (overall recruitment rates) show strong positive correlations with temperatures of seven months previously; negative flux (overall depletion rates) show strong positive correlations with prawn catches of the same month or a month before.