Marine defaunation: Animal loss in the global ocean

Science

Volumn 347, Issue 6219, 2015, Pages

  McCauley, Douglas J ^a   Pinsky, Malin L ^b   Palumbi, Stephen R ^c   Estes, James A ^d   Joyce, Francis H ^a   Warner, Robert R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; GLOBAL OCEAN; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PROTECTED AREA; WILDFIRE;

ACIDIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES; ANCHOVY; AQUATIC FAUNA; BALEEN WHALE; BLEACHING; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL WATERS; CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; DEGRADATION; FOOD WEB; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAY WHALE; HABITAT; HABITAT DEGRADATION; HUMAN; KRILL; MARINE DEFAUNATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SPECIES; MUSTELIDAE; NONHUMAN; OCEAN ACIDIFICATION; OTTER; PELAGIC FISH; PISCICULTURE; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SARDINE; SEA; SEA POLLUTION; SEA TURTLE; SEABIRD; SEAL; SHARK; SHOREBIRD; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; TROPHIC CASCADE; WARMING; WHALE; WILDLIFE; ANIMAL; AQUATIC SPECIES; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA;

SEA WATER;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEAWATER;

EID: 84922480047     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1255641     Document Type: Review

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