Relationships between rocky-reef fish assemblages, the sea urchin Diadema antillarum and macroalgae throughout the Canarian Archipelago

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 278, Issue , 2004, Pages 157-169

  Tuya, Fernando ^a   Boyra, Arturo ^a   Sanchez Jerez, Pablo ^b   Barbera, Carmen ^a   Haroun, Ricardo J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Canary Islands; Diadema antillarum; Fish assemblages; Macroalgae; Sea urchins; Trophic cascades; Urchin fish interactions

Indexed keywords

MACROALGA; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SUBSTRATE; TROPHIC CASCADE; TROPHIC STRUCTURE; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; DIADEMA; DIADEMA ANTILLARUM; ECHINOIDEA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 6044261641     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps278157     Document Type: Review

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