Impact of sea-cage fish farms on intertidal macrobenthic assemblages

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 665-668

  Boyra, A ^a   Nascimento, F J A ^c   Tuya, F ^a   Sanchez Jerez, P ^b   Haroun, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^c Centro de Maricultura da Calheta   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FISH CULTURE; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; MACROBENTHOS; MARICULTURE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GRAN CANARIA; LAS PALMAS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ALGAE; ANEMONIA; ANEMONIA SULCATA; ANTHOZOA; CAULERPA; CAULERPA RACEMOSA; CORALLINA; CORALLINA ELONGATA;

EID: 3042567823     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315404009713h     Document Type: Article

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