Large-Scale Sea Urchin Culling Drives the Reduction of Subtidal Barren Grounds in the Mediterranean Sea

Large-Scale Sea Urchin Culling Drives the Reduction of Subtidal Barren Grounds in the Mediterranean Sea

Increasing anthropogenic pressures are causing long-lasting regime shifts from high-diversity ecosystems to low-diversity ones. In the Mediterranean Sea, large expanses of rocky subtidal habitats characterized by high diversity have been completely degraded to the barren state due to the high grazin...

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Main Authors: Giuseppe Guarnieri, Stanislao Bevilacqua, Neus Figueras, Laura Tamburello, Simonetta Fraschetti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
Subjects:
macrobenthic assemblages
patch dynamics
rocky reefs
sea urchin barrens
restoration
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2020.00519/full

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