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The Nekton Species Structure in the Northwestern Sea of Japan |
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| © 2008 O. A. Ivanov1, V. V. Sukhanov2 |
| 1 Pacific Fisheries Research Center, Vladivostok |
| 2 A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology FEB RAS, Vladivostok |
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| Since the early 1980ies, all-round studies of pelagic resources have been conducted by the TINRO Research Center in the northwestern Sea of Japan, under the Program of Ecosystem Studies of the Far Eastern seas. By present, a large amount of information has been obtained from trawling surveys of pelagic nekton. The collected data are presented in tables, charts and maps in new monographs about nekton in the northwestern Sea of Japan (Нектон..., 2004; Атлас..., 2004). An all-round analysis of these data shall be a multivariate problem of future studies, which are in part presented in this paper and are aimed at different aspects of taxonomic, biotopic and zoogeographic diversity. The nekton range structure is discussed and the species abundance is tentatively predicted for the study area. |
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| Keywords: nekton, taxonomic structure, biotope, natural habitat, range structure, range curves, species diversity. |
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