Assessing the effects of large mobile predators on ecosystem connectivity

Ecological Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1711-1717

  McCauley, Douglas J ^a,d   Young, Hillary S ^a   Dunbar, Robert B ^a   Estes, James A ^b   Semmens, Brice X ^c   Micheli, Fiorenza ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Isotope; Management; Marine; Palmyra Atoll; Predator; Reserve

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ATOLL; CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; HABITAT CREATION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MOBILITY; PERCIFORM; POLICY MAKING; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATOR; RESOURCE USE; SHARK; TROPICAL REGION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; FISH; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; PACIFIC OCEAN; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

LINE ISLANDS; PALMYRA ATOLL;

ANIMALIA; CARCHARHINUS SPRINGERI; PALMYRA;

EID: 84866883607     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1653.1     Document Type: Article

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