The long-term impacts of fisheries on epifaunal assemblage function and structure, in a Special Area of Conservation

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We thank Dr. David Erwin for permission to use and access to his data through the Centre for Environmental Data Access and Recording (CEDaR). We thank Dr. Ellen Kenchington and Dr. Julie Bremner for their advice on species traits and Dr. Russell Thomson and Dr. Mathieu Lundy for their advice on co-inertia analyses. We also thank the journal club of the School Biological Sciences, Queens University for feedback on an early draft of the manuscript This research was funded by grants awarded to the Ulster Museum and Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland from Northern Ireland Environment Agency. We thank the individuals from these organisations that participated in the collecting the data. We thank the editor and two anonymous referees for their valuable comments to the manuscript and their constructive suggestions. The funding body was not involved in the project design, analyses, report writing or the decision to publish the research.