Increased recruitment rates indicate recovering populations of the sea urchin Diadema antillarum on Curaçao

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 719-725

  Vermeij, Mark J A ^a,b   Debrot, Adolphe O ^a   Van Der Hal, Noam ^b   Bakker, Judith ^b   Bak, Rolf P M ^b,c  

^a Caribbean Research and Management of Biodiversity CARMABI   (Netherlands Antilles)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADULT; ECHINODERM; HERBIVORE; MASS MORTALITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REEF;

CURACAO; NETHERLANDS ANTILLES;

DIADEMA; DIADEMA ANTILLARUM; ECHINOIDEA;

EID: 77954929403     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: 15536955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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