Quantifying the decline in Corallium rubrum populations

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 418, Issue , 2010, Pages 295-297

  Santangelo, Giovanni ^a   Bramanti, Lorenzo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

CITES Appendix II listing; Gorgonians; Mediterranean sea; Red coral

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY; CORAL; DATA SET; DEEP WATER; DEMOGRAPHY; HARVESTING; POPULATION DECLINE; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; SAMPLING; SHALLOW WATER; SIZE STRUCTURE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ANTHOZOA; CORALLIUM RUBRUM; GORGONACEA;

EID: 78649617630     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08897     Document Type: Review

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