The fouling community as an indicator of fish farming impact in Mediterranean

Aquaculture Research

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 66-75

  Sarà, Gianluca ^a   Lo Martire, Marco ^a   Buffa, Giacomo ^a   Mannino, Anna M ^a   Badalamenti, Fabio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anthropic systems; Artificial substrata; Fish farm organic enrichment; Fouling community; MED

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALLOCHTHON; BIODIVERSITY; BIOFOULING; BIOINDICATOR; FISH CULTURE; FISHING; FOULING ORGANISM; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; ORGANIC MATTER; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SPECIES RICHNESS;

GULF OF CASTELLAMMARE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

EID: 33846018381     PISSN: 1355557X     EISSN: 13652109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2109.2006.01632.x     Document Type: Article

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