Effects of desertification caused by Lithophaga lithophaga (Mollusca) fishery on littoral fish assemblages along rocky coasts of southeastern Italy

Conservation Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1417-1423

  Guidetti, Paolo ^a   Fraschetti, Simonetta ^a   Terlizzi, Antonio ^a   Boero, Ferdinando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Date mussel; Destructive fishery; Fish assemblages; Mediterranean Sea; Shallow rocky reefs

Indexed keywords

DESERTIFICATION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FISHERY; ICHTHYOFAUNA; ROCKY SHORE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PUGLIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

BIVALVIA; LITHOPHAGA; LITHOPHAGA LITHOPHAGA; MOLLUSCA; MYTILIDAE; PISCES; SYMPHODUS;

EID: 5344224106     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2004.00343.x     Document Type: Review

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