Climate variability and massive mortalities challenge giant clam conservation and management efforts in French Polynesia atolls

Biological Conservation

Volumn 160, Issue , 2013, Pages 190-199

  Andréfouët, Serge ^a   Van Wynsberge, Simon ^a   Gaertner Mazouni, Nabila ^b   Menkes, Christophe ^a   Gilbert, Antoine ^c   Remoissenet, Georges ^d  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LA POLYNÉSIE FRANÇAISE   (French Polynesia)

^c GINGER SOPRONER   (New Caledonia)

^d GINGER SOPRONER ^*  (French Polynesia)

Author keywords

Bottom up conservation; CITES; Community based management; Fisheries management; Top down conservation; Tridacna maxima; Tuamotu archipelago

Indexed keywords

ATOLL; BIVALVE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; JUVENILE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MARINE RESOURCE; MASS MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; PROTECTED AREA; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

FRENCH POLYNESIA; SOCIETY ISLANDS; TAHITI; TATAKOTO; TUAMOTU ARCHIPELAGO; WINDWARD ISLANDS [SOCIETY ISLANDS];

EID: 84875078958     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2013.01.017     Document Type: Article

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