Fishery-independent data reveal negative effect of human population density on Caribbean predatory fish communities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Stallings, Christopher D ^a,b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORAL REEF; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FISH; FISHERY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; ANIMAL; CENTRAL AMERICA; FOOD INDUSTRY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANTHOZOA; PISCES;

ANIMALS; CARIBBEAN REGION; ECOSYSTEM; FISHERIES; FISHES; HUMANS; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 65549125458     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005333     Document Type: Article

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