Large-scale absence of sharks on reefs in the greater-caribbean: A footprint of human pressures

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Ward Paige, Christine A ^a   Mora, Camilo ^a   Lotze, Heike K ^a   Pattengill Semmens, Christy ^b   McClenachan, Loren ^c   Arias Castro, Ery ^d   Myers, Ransom A ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Reef Environmental Education Foundation   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION; FISHING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; SEA POLLUTION; SHARK; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TREND STUDY; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INFORMATION PROCESSING;

ANTHOZOA; CHONDRICHTHYES; GINGLYMOSTOMATIDAE;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CARIBBEAN REGION; DATA COLLECTION; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; POPULATION DENSITY; SHARKS;

EID: 77957809219     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011968     Document Type: Article

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