Fishing for lobsters indirectly increases epidemics in sea urchins

Ecological Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1566-1573

  Lafferty, Kevin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel Islands (California, USA); Disease epidemics; Emerging disease; Host density threshold for disease transmission; Kelp forest ecosystem; Lobster fishing; Sea urchins; Trophic cascade

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DISEASE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; KELP FOREST; LOBSTER FISHERY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; TROPHIC CASCADE;

CALIFORNIA; CHANNEL ISLANDS NATIONAL PARK; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ECHINOIDEA; LOBSTER;

EID: 6344239147     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-5088     Document Type: Article

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