Enhancement of Grazing Gastropod Populations as a Coral Reef Restoration Tool: Predation Effects and Related Applied Implications

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 803-809

  Villanueva, Ronald D ^a   Edwards, Alasdair J ^b   Bell, Johann D ^c,d  

^a University of the Philippines Diliman   (Philippines)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c WORLDFISH   (Malaysia)

^d SECRETARIAT OF THE PACIFIC COMMUNITY   (New Caledonia)

Author keywords

Coral recruitment; Coral reef restoration; Coral transplantation; Grazing; Herbivore predation; Trochus

Indexed keywords

CORAL REEF; GASTROPOD; GRAZING PRESSURE; PREDATION RISK; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RESTORATION ECOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; GASTROPODA; OCTOPUS; PISCES; TROCHUS; TROCHUS NILOTICUS;

EID: 78049455226     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00742.x     Document Type: Article

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