Mitigating human disturbance: Can protection influence trajectories of recovery in benthic assemblages?

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 908-920

  Bevilacqua, Stanislao ^a   Terlizzi, Antonio ^a   Fraschetti, Simonetta ^a   Russo, Giovanni Fulvio ^b   Boero, Ferdinando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coastal management; Lithophaga lithophaga; Marine Protected Areas; Resilience; Subtidal rocky reefs

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; HABITAT RESTORATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARINE PARK; MITIGATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; TRAJECTORY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOOD INDUSTRY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEA; SEA URCHIN; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FISHERIES; HUMANS; MARINE BIOLOGY; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEA URCHINS;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

LITHOPHAGA; LITHOPHAGA LITHOPHAGA;

EID: 33748504561     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2006.01108.x     Document Type: Article

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