Use of a seagrass residency index to apportion commercial fishery landing values and recreation fisheries expenditure to seagrass habitat service

Conservation Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 899-909

  Jackson, Emma L ^a,b   Rees, Siân E ^a   Wilding, Catherine ^a,c   Attrill, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Environmental Records Centre for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Commercial fisheries; Ecosystem services; Habitat valuation; Recreational fisheries; Seagrass

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; RESIDENCE TIME; SEAGRASS;

ALISMATALES; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUROPE; FISHERY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROCEDURES; RECREATION;

ALISMATIDAE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EUROPE; FISHERIES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RECREATION;

EID: 84929274674     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12436     Document Type: Article

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