Epibenthic fish species composition and faunal zonation for the pooled data from 1964 to 2002.

<p>(a) Group-average cluster analysis on inter-sample Sørensen’s similarities. The solid lines indicate significant structure (SIMPROF test, P<5%). The horizontal dashed line shows 10% similarity. (b) Distribution of the fish faunal zones with at least 10% of faunal similarity. “SB” denotes Shelf-Break Group. “US” denotes Upper-Slope Group. “U-MS” denotes Upper-Slope-to-Mid-Slope Group. “MS” denotes Mid-Slope Group. “M-LS” denotes Mid-to-Lower-Slope Group. “LS-A1” denotes Lower-Slope-to-Abyssal Group 1. “LS-A2” denotes Lower-Slope-to-Abyssal Group 2. The same symbols are used in Fig. 5a and 5b.