Conserving biodiversity in a human-dominated world: degradation of marine sessile communities within a protected area with conflicting human uses.

Conservation research aims at understanding whether present protection schemes are adequate for the maintenance of ecosystems structure and function across time. We evaluated long-term variation in rocky reef communities by comparing sites surveyed in 1993 and again in 2008. This research took place...

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Main Authors: Valeriano Parravicini, Fiorenza Micheli, Monica Montefalcone, Carla Morri, Elisa Villa, Michela Castellano, Paolo Povero, Carlo Nike Bianchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24143173/pdf/?tool=EBI