Long-term assessment of temperate octocoral mortality patterns, protected vs. unprotected areas

Ecological Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1466-1478

  Coma, Rafel ^a   Pola, Emilià ^b   Ribes, Marta ^c   Zabala, Mikel ^d  

^a CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^b Associacio Catalana d'Entitats R   (Spain)

^c INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conservation needs; Coralligenous community; Diving impacts; Gorgonian mortality; Human impact; Marine management; Mortality; Natural cf. human induced; Northwestern Mediterranean; Octocoral injury; Paramuricea clavata; Recreation and marine protected areas

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CORAL; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; MARINE PARK; MORTALITY; PROTECTED AREA; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ANTHOZOA; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; GORGONACEA; GORGONIA; PARAMURICEA; PARAMURICEA CLAVATA;

EID: 6344292314     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-5176     Document Type: Article

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