Idiosyncratic effects of protection in a remote marine reserve

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 466, Issue , 2012, Pages 21-34

  Fraschetti, Simonetta ^a   Bevilacqua, Stanislao ^a   Guarnieri, Giuseppe ^a   Terlizzi, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Human pressures; Marine habitats; Marine Protected Areas; Recovery; Rocky benthic assemblages; Spatio temporal heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARCHIPELAGO; BENTHOS; BROWN ALGA; CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; MARINE PARK; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RED ALGA; ROCKY SHORE; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT;

ADRIATIC COAST [ITALY]; ADRIATIC SEA; FOGGIA; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PUGLIA; TREMITI ISLANDS;

EID: 84867511224     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09937     Document Type: Article

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