Recovery from blast fishing on coral reefs: A tale of two scales

Ecological Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1631-1635

  Fox, Helen E ^a,b   Caldwell, Roy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b World Wildlife Fund ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Coral reefs; Disturbance; Dynamite or bomb fishing; Indonesia; Marine ecology; Recovery

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

BLASTING; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CORAL REEF; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHING MORTALITY; OCEANIC CURRENT;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EXPLOSION; FOOD INDUSTRY; INDONESIA; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEA;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; EXPLOSIONS; FISHERIES; INDONESIA; NITROGLYCERIN; OCEANS AND SEAS;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 33749545181     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: 10510761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2006)016[1631:RFBFOC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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