Human impacts on the species-area relationship in reef fish assemblages

Ecology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 760-772

  Tittensor, Derek P ^a   Micheli, Fiorenza ^b   Nyström, Magnus ^c   Worm, Boris ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coral; Diversity; Exploitation; Fishing; Macroecology; Reef; Scale; Species abundance; Species richness; Species area

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; CORAL REEF; FISH; FISHING; MACROECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISH; FOOD INDUSTRY; HUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW; SEA; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FISHERIES; FISHES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 34547444975     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01076.x     Document Type: Review

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