Chronic and intensive bottom trawling impairs deep-sea biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 8861-8866

  Pusceddu, Antonio ^a   Bianchelli, Silvia ^a   Martín, Jacobo ^b,c   Puig, Pere ^b   Palanques, Albert ^b   Masqué, Pere ^d   Danovaro, Roberto ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^c CENTRO AUSTRAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS CADIC CONICET   (Argentina)

^d INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^e STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC MATTER;

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP SEA; DEGRADATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; FISHING; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEIOFAUNA; MORTALITY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA FOOD; SEDIMENT; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CHLOROPHYLL; ECOSYSTEM; FISHERIES; FISHES; GEOGRAPHY; INVERTEBRATES; MARINE BIOLOGY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEMATODA; PIGMENTATION; SEAWATER;

EID: 84902590794     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1405454111     Document Type: Article

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