Spatio-temporal trends in diversity of demersal fish assemblages in the Mediterranean

Spatio-temporal trends in diversity of demersal fish assemblages in the Mediterranean

The high species richness, coupled with high proportion of endemism, makes the Mediterranean one of the world’s ‘biodiversity hotspots’. However, the continuous increase in fisheries in the last few decades has led to the overexploitation of their main commercial stocks. Using fishery-independent da...

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Main Authors: M. Teresa Farriols, Francesc Ordines, Pierluigi Carbonara, Loredana Casciaro, Manfredi Di Lorenzo, Antonio Esteban, Cristina Follesa, Cristina García-Ruiz, Igor Isajlovic, Angélique Jadaud, Alessandro Ligas, Chiara Manfredi, Bojan Marceta, Panagiota Peristeraki, Nedo Vrgoc, Enric Massutí
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas 2019-12-01
Series:Scientia Marina
Subjects:
biodiversity
fish assemblages
medits
bottom trawling
fishing effort
mediterranean sea
Online Access:http://scientiamarina.revistas.csic.es/index.php/scientiamarina/article/view/1821

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