Territorial User Rights for Fisheries as Ancillary Instruments for Marine Coastal Conservation in Chile

Conservation Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1005-1015

  Gelcich, Stefan ^a,b   Fernández, Miriam ^a,b   Godoy, Natalio ^b   Canepa, Antonio ^b   Prado, Luis ^c   Castilla, Juan Carlos ^a,b  

^a Laboratorio Internacional en Cambio Global (LINCGLOBAL)   (Spain)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSIDAD SANTO TOMÁS   (Chile)

Author keywords

Artisanal fisheries; Biodiversity; Conservation; Marine protected areas; MEABR; TURF

Indexed keywords

ARTISANAL FISHERY; BIOMASS; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; COMPLEXITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; FISH; KELP FOREST; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARINE PARK; MARINE POLICY; PUBLIC ACCESS; REEF; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUBSTRATE; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; SUSTAINABILITY; TERRITORIALITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CHILE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISH; FISHERY; INVERTEBRATE; KELP; LEGAL ASPECT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CHILE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FISHERIES; FISHES; INVERTEBRATES; KELP; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION DENSITY;

CHILE;

LESSONIA TRABECULATA; PISCES;

EID: 84868662476     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2012.01928.x     Document Type: Article

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