Illegal trawling and induced invasive algal spread as collaborative factors in a Posidonia oceanica meadow degradation

Biological Invasions

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 669-678

  Kiparissis, Sotiris ^a   Fakiris, Elias ^b   Papatheodorou, George ^b   Geraga, Maria ^b   Kornaros, Michael ^b   Kapareliotis, Apostolos ^c   Ferentinos, George ^b  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c Fishery Department   (Greece)

Author keywords

Caulerpa racemosa var cylindracea; Colonization; Mediterranean Sea; Posidonia oceanica; Side Scan Sonar; Trawling

Indexed keywords

ALGA; ALLELOPATHY; COLONIZATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INVASIVE SPECIES; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SEDIMENT; MEADOW; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PHYTOTOXICITY; REGRESSION; SEAFLOOR MAPPING; SEAGRASS; SIDESCAN SONAR; TRAWLING;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ALGAE; CAULERPA; CAULERPA RACEMOSA; POLYCHAETA; POSIDONIA OCEANICA; SABELLA PAVONINA;

EID: 79751530053     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-010-9858-9     Document Type: Article

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