Sea urchin harvest inside marine protected areas: an opportunity to investigate the effects of exploitation where trophic upgrading is achieved

Sea urchin harvest inside marine protected areas: an opportunity to investigate the effects of exploitation where trophic upgrading is achieved

Background Marine protected areas (MPAs) usually have both positive effects of protection for the fisheries’ target species and indirect negative effects for sea urchins. Moreover, often in MPAs sea urchin human harvest is restricted, but allowed. This study is aimed at estimating the effect of huma...

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Main Authors: Giulia Ceccherelli, Piero Addis, Fabrizio Atzori, Nicoletta Cadoni, Marco Casu, Stefania Coppa, Mario De Luca, Giuseppe Andrea de Lucia, Simone Farina, Nicola Fois, Francesca Frau, Vittorio Gazale, Daniele Grech, Ivan Guala, Mariano Mariani, Massimo SG Marras, Augusto Navone, Arianna Pansini, Pieraugusto Panzalis, Federico Pinna, Alberto Ruiu, Fabio Scarpa, Luigi Piazzi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2022-03-01
Series:PeerJ
Subjects:
Cumulative effects
Exploitation
Coastal management
Marine protected areas
Mediterranean Sea
Predation
Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/12971.pdf

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