Fish foraging patterns, vulnerability to fishing, and implications for the management of ecosystem function across scales

Ecological Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1632-1644

  Nash, Kirsty L ^a   Graham, Nicholas A J ^a   Bellwood, David R ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allometry; Australia; Coral reef; Ecosystem processes; Fisheries; Functional group; Great Barrier Reef; Herbivore; Redundancy; Resilience

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BODY SIZE; BROWSING; CORAL REEF; DETRITIVORY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; HERBIVORY; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; MACROALGA; MOVEMENT; OVERFISHING; PHYLOGENY; VULNERABILITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; FISH; GENETICS; HERBIVORY; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; HERBIVORY; ISLANDS;

AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84886549754     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-2031.1     Document Type: Article

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