Fishing, trophic cascades, and the process of grazing on coral reefs

Science

Volumn 311, Issue 5757, 2006, Pages 98-101

  Mumby, Peter J ^a   Dahlgren, Craig P ^b   Harborne, Alastair R ^a   Kappel, Carrie V ^c   Micheli, Fiorenza ^c   Brumbaugh, Daniel R ^d   Holmes, Katherine E ^d   Mendes, Judith M ^e   Broad, Kenneth ^f   Sanchirico, James N ^g   Buch, Kevin ^b   Box, Steve ^a   Stoffle, Richard W ^h   Gill, Andrew B ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b Perry Institute for Marine Science   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^g RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

ⁱ CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FISHERIES;

CORAL REEFS; CORALS; MASS MORTALITY; TROPHIC CASCADES;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

CORAL REEF; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ALGA; ARTICLE; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CONSUMER; CORAL REEF; DIADEMA ANTILLARUM; FISH; FISHING; GRAZING; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PARROTFISH; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA URCHIN; TROPHIC CASCADE;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BAHAMAS; BIOMASS; BODY SIZE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FISHERIES; FISHES; PERCIFORMES; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; DIADEMA ANTILLARUM; ECHINOIDEA; EPINEPHELUS STRIATUS; PISCES; SCARIDAE; SPARISOMA CRETENSE;

EID: 30344453373     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1121129     Document Type: Article

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