El Niño, grazers and fisheries interact to greatly elevate extinction risk for Galapagos marine species

Global Change Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2876-2890

  Edgar, Graham J ^a,b,c   Banks, Stuart A ^a   Brandt, Margarita ^a   Bustamante, Rodrigo H ^d   Chiriboga, Angel ^a   Earle, Sylvia A ^e   Garske, Lauren E ^f   Glynn, Peter W ^g   Grove, Jack S ^h   Henderson, Scott ⁱ   Hickman, Cleve P ^j   Miller, Kathy A ^k   Rivera, Fernando ^a,l   Wellington, Gerald M ^m  

^a Charles Darwin Foundation   (Ecuador)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^h NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY   (United States)

ⁱ Washington and Lee University ^*  (Ecuador)

^j WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^m University of Houston   (United States)

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Author keywords

Climate change; Effects of fishing; Marine protected area; Sea urchin; Threatened species; Trophic cascade

Indexed keywords

ARTISANAL FISHERY; BIODIVERSITY; ECHINODERM; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EXTINCTION RISK; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; MARINE PARK; MICROALGA; RED LIST; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPHIC CASCADE;

ECUADOR; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; AVES; AZURINA EUPALAMA; BIFURCARIA; DESMARESTIA; ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDEA; GALAXAURA; GRACILARIA; HELIASTER; MAMMALIA; PHAEOPHYCEAE; PISCES; POMACENTRIDAE; REPTILIA; RHODOPHYTA; SPATOGLOSSUM;

EID: 77956245648     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02117.x     Document Type: Article

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