Life on the edge: environmental determinants of tilefish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps) abundance since its virtual extinction in 1882

• Published in: ICES Journal of Marine Science
• Main Authors: Fisher, Jonathan A. D., Frank, Kenneth T., Petrie, Brian, Leggett, William C.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2014
• Subjects: Original Articles; Burrows; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/71/9/2371; https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsu053

Unlike many temperate marine species that alter spatial or depth distributions in response to environmental change, tilefish ( Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps ) has such specific habitat requirements that off the coast of New England, USA, it is restricted to the normally warm-water, upper continental...