Predicting the vulnerability of tropical reef fishes to exploitation with phylogenies and life histories

Conservation Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1466-1475

  Jennings, Simon ^a,c   Reynolds, John D ^a   Polunin, Nicholas V C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CORAL REEF; FISHING MORTALITY; ICHTHYOFAUNA; LIFE HISTORY; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 0032714704     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.98324.x     Document Type: Article

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