Ecological impacts on the limpet Lottia gigantea populations: Human pressure over a broad scale on island and mainland intertidal zones

Marine Biology

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 399-413

  Sagarin, Raphael D ^a   Ambrose, Richard F ^a   Becker, Bonnie J ^b   Engle, John M ^c   Kido, Janine ^d   Lee, Steven F ^a   Miner, C Melissa ^e   Murray, Steven N ^d   Raimondi, Peter T ^e   Richards, Dan ^f   Roe, Christy ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Cabrillo National Monument   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Channel Islands National Park   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; GASTROPOD; HABITAT TYPE; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; ISLAND; POACHING; POPULATION SIZE; SIZE STRUCTURE;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

HAEMATOPODIDAE; LOTTIA GIGANTEA; PATELLIDAE;

EID: 33845646766     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-006-0341-1     Document Type: Article

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