Overexploiting marine ecosystem engineers: Potential consequences for biodiversity

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 40-44

  Coleman, Felicia C ^a   Williams, Susan L ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; OVERFISHING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPHIC CASCADE;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION; FISHING; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; REVIEW; SEDIMENT; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

EID: 0036147177     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(01)02330-8     Document Type: Review

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