Cascading effects of fishing on Galapagos rocky reef communities

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 343, Issue , 2007, Pages 77-85

  Sonnenholzner, Jorge I ^a   Ladah, Lydia B ^a   Lafferty, Kevin D ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecuador; Eucidaris galapagensis; Fishing; Galapagos marine reserve; Population structure; Predation; Trophic cascade

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CORALLINE ALGA; ECHINODERM; FISHING; MARINE PARK; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; REEF; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC CASCADE;

ECUADOR; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS; GALAPAGOS MARINE RESERVE; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH AMERICA;

AIPTASIA; ALGAE; ANEMONE; BODIANUS DIPLOTAENIA; EUCIDARIS GALAPAGENSIS; EUCIDARIS TRIBULOIDES; HETEROCENTROTUS MAMMILLATUS; LABRIDAE; PALINURIDAE; PANULIRUS PENICILLATUS; SCYLLARIDAE; SCYLLARIDES ASTORI;

EID: 34548400163     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps06915     Document Type: Article

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