Effects of Human Population Density and Proximity to Markets on Coral Reef Fishes Vulnerable to Extinction by Fishing

Conservation Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 443-452

  Brewer, T D ^a   Cinner, J E ^a   Green, A ^b   Pressey, R L ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human environment interaction; Modernization; Overfishing vulnerability; Path analysis; Small scale fishery; Social ecological system

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CORAL REEF; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MODERNIZATION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; OVERFISHING; PATH ANALYSIS; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; STOCK ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABILITY; VULNERABILITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISHERY; HUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CORAL REEFS; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FISHERIES; HUMANS; POPULATION DENSITY;

SOLOMON ISLANDS [(ISG) MELANESIA]; SOLOMON ISLANDS [SOLOMON ISLANDS (ISG)];

ANTHOZOA; PISCES;

EID: 84878117348     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2012.01963.x     Document Type: Article

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