Comparative study of two maerl beds with different otter trawling history, southeast Iberian Peninsula

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 13, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2003, Pages

  Bordehore, Cèsar ^a,b,c   Ramos Esplá, Alfonso A ^a   Riosmena Rodríguez, Rafael ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

^c Medi Ambient   (Spain)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Macrofauna; Maerl; Mediterranean; Rhodolith; Trawling impacts

Indexed keywords

ALGAL COMMUNITY; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; RHODOLITH; SEDIMENT PROPERTY; TRAWLING; ZOOBENTHOS;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SPAIN;

ALGAE; CARNIVORA; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; CORALLINALES;

EID: 0037288973     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.567     Document Type: Conference Paper

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