Epibenthic fish species composition and faunal zonation during the DGoMB study from 2000 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-to-Mid-Slope Group. “M-LS” denotes Mid-to-Lower-Slope Group. “LS-A” denotes Lower-Slope-to-Abyssal Group. The same symbols are used in Fig. 4a and 4b.