Marine protected areas in the mediterranean sea: Objectives, effectiveness and monitoring

Marine Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2002, Pages 190-200

  Fraschetti, Simonetta ^a   Terlizzi, Antonio ^a   Micheli, Fiorenza ^b   Benedetti Cecchi, Lisandro ^c   Boero, Ferdinando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beyond BACI designs; Experimental monitoring; Marine protected areas; Mediterranean sea; Rocky substrates

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141740460     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: 14390485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.2002.tb00018.x     Document Type: Article

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