Trophic Cascades Induced by Lobster Fishing Are Not Ubiquitous in Southern California Kelp Forests

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Guenther, Carla M ^a,b   Lenihan, Hunter S ^a   Grant, Laura E ^a,c   Lopez Carr, David ^a   Reed, Daniel C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Penobscot East Resource Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FISHING; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MACROALGA; NONHUMAN; PANULIRUS INTERRUPTUS; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SEA URCHIN; TROPHIC CASCADE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FISHERIES; FOOD CHAIN; KELP; PALINURIDAE; POPULATION DENSITY;

ECHINOIDEA; LOBSTER; MACROCYSTIS PYRIFERA; PALINURIDAE; PANULIRUS INTERRUPTUS;

EID: 84870566128     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049396     Document Type: Article

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