Tropical rabbitfish and the deforestation of a warming temperate sea

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1518-1527

  Vergés, Adriana ^a,b   Tomas, Fiona ^c,d   Cebrian, Emma ^e,f   Ballesteros, Enric ^e   Kizilkaya, Zafer ^g   Dendrinos, Panagiotis ^h   Karamanlidis, Alexandros A ^h   Spiegel, David ^a   Sala, Enric ^e,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b SYDNEY INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^f UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^g Mediterranean Conservation Society   (Turkey)

^h MOm/Hellenic Society for the Study and Protection of the Monk Seal   (Greece)

ⁱ NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Eastern Mediterranean; Functional diversity; Marine herbivory; Phase shift; Plant herbivore interactions; Tropicalization

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; DEFORESTATION; MACROALGA; PERCIFORM; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; RANGE EXPANSION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; VIDEOGRAPHY; ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; HERBIVORE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRANSITION ZONE; WARMING;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; EGYPT; SUEZ CANAL;

ALGAE; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84925714207     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12324     Document Type: Article

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