Boat anchoring impacts coastal populations of the pen shell, The largest bivalve in the Mediterranean

Biological Conservation

Volumn 160, Issue , 2013, Pages 105-113

  Hendriks, Iris E ^a   Tenan, Simone ^a,b,c   Tavecchia, Giacomo ^a   Marbà, Núria ^a   Jordà, Gabriel ^a   Deudero, Salud ^d   Álvarez, Elvira ^e   Duarte, Carlos M ^a,f  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b Museo delle Scienza   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares   (Spain)

^e Govern de les Illes Balears ^*  (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Capture recapture; Data augmentation; Habitat; Hierarchical models; Individual covariate; Pinna nobilis; Population size; Population structure

Indexed keywords

ANCHOR; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIVALVE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MEADOW; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SEAGRASS; SHELL;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; MAJORCA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SPAIN;

EID: 84874474329     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2013.01.012     Document Type: Article

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