Fishing degrades size structure of coral reef fish communities
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Fishing degrades size structure of coral reef fish communities.
Fishing pressure on coral reef ecosystems has been frequently linked to reductions of large fishes and reef fish biomass. Associated impacts on overall community structure are, however, less clear. In size-structured aquatic ecosystems, fishing impacts are commonly quantified using size spectra, which describe the distribution of individual body sizes within a community. We examined the size sp...
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عنوان ژورنال: Global Change Biology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1354-1013,1365-2486
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13482