Biophysical factors affecting the distribution of demersal fish around the head of a submarine canyon off the Bonney Coast, South Australia

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Currie, D., McClatchie, S., Middleton, J., Nayar, S.
• Other Authors: Fenton, B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2012
• Subjects: Models; Biological; Antarctic; Bonney; Flinders; Currie; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/91814; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0030138

We sampled the demersal fish community of the Bonney Canyon, South Australia at depths (100-1,500 m) and locations that are poorly known. Seventy-eight species of demersal fish were obtained from 12 depth-stratified trawls along, and to either side, of the central canyon axis. Distributional pattern...