Recruitment failure and shifts in community structure following mass mortality limit recovery prospects of black abalone

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 327, Issue , 2006, Pages 107-117

  Miner, C Melissa ^a   Altstatt, Jessica M ^b   Raimondi, Peter T ^a   Minchinton, Todd E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Santa Barbara Channelkeeper   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community structure; Haliotis cracherodii; Marine diseases; Mass mortality; Recovery; Recruitment limitation; Rocky intertidal shores; Withering syndrome

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISPERSAL; GASTROPOD; HABITAT QUALITY; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; MORTALITY RISK; RECRUITMENT; ROCKY SHORE;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; ECHINOIDEA; HALIOTIDAE; HALIOTIS CRACHERODII; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 33846430495     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps327107     Document Type: Article

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