Overlap between vulnerable top predators and fisheries in the benguela upwelling system: Implications for marine protected areas

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 391, Issue , 2009, Pages 199-208

  Pichegru, L ^a,b   Ryan, P G ^b   Le Bohec, C ^a   Van Der Lingen, C D ^b,c   Navarro, R ^b   Petersen, S ^b   Lewis, S ^d   Van Der Westhuizen, J ^c   Gremillet D ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c MARINE AND COASTAL MANAGEMENT   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

African penguins; Biotelemetry; Cape gannets; Conservation; Foraging hotspots; Industrial fisheries; Offshore reserves

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FEEDING GROUND; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GPS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MARINE PARK; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATOR; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEABIRD; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; UPWELLING; VULNERABILITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BENGUELA CURRENT;

AVES; ENGRAULIDAE; ENGRAULIS ENCRASICOLUS; MORUS (PLANT); MORUS CAPENSIS; SARDINOPS SAGAX; SPHENISCIDAE; SPHENISCUS DEMERSUS;

EID: 70349763404     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08283     Document Type: Article

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