Slow growth and lack of recovery in overfished holothurians on the Great Barrier Reef: Evidence from DNA fingerprints and repeated large-scale surveys

Conservation Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1395-1404

  Uthicke, S ^a   Welch, D ^b   Benzie, J A H ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

B che de mer; DNA fingerprinting; Growth rates; Holothuria nobilis; Invertebrate fishery; Sea cucumber; Trepang

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CORAL REEF; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; OVERFISHING; PRODUCTIVITY; RECOVERY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; ECHINODERMATA; HOLOTHURIA; HOLOTHURIA NOBILIS; HOLOTHUROIDEA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 5344275262     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2004.00309.x     Document Type: Review

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