Large-scale assessment of mediterranean marine protected areas effects on fish assemblages

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Guidetti, Paolo ^a,b   Baiata, Pasquale ^a   Ballesteros, Enric ^c   Di Franco, Antonio ^a,b   Hereu, Bernat ^d   Macpherson, Enrique ^c   Micheli, Fiorenza ^e   Pais, Antonio ^f   Panzalis, Pieraugusto ^g   Rosenberg, Andrew A ^h   Zabala, Mikel ^d   Sala, Enric ^c,i  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b CoNISMa ^*  (Italy)

^c CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^g Marine Protected Area of Tavolara Punta Coda Cavallo ^*  (Italy)

^h UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS   (United States)

ⁱ NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FISH; FISHING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE PROTECTED AREA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NONHUMAN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDICTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPHIC CASCADE; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISHERY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FISHERIES; FISHES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84899689921     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091841     Document Type: Article

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