Leading role of the sea urchin Arbacia lixula in maintaining the barren state in southwestern Mediterranean

By C. Bonaviri, T. Vega Fernández, G. Fanelli, Fabio Badalamenti, P. Gianguzza. 2011

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Subfields: Aquatic Science, Ecology, Oceanography

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In Aquatic Science

1. E. Sala
2. J. Romero
3. X. Turon

In Ecology

1. X. Turon
2. J. Romero
3. E. Sala
4. L. Mangialajo
5. P. Guidetti
6. F. Tomas

In Oceanography

1. X. Turon
2. J. Romero
3. E. Sala
4. L. Mangialajo
5. F. Tomas
6. P. Guidetti

Citations in the corpus

• Nursery value of Cystoseira forests for Mediterranean rocky reef fishes (2013, background): “, Dictyotales and Sphacelariales), turf algae, or sea urchin barrens dominated by encrusting Corallinaceae (Bonaviri et al., 2011; Hereu, 2004).”
• A wolf in sheep"s clothing: carnivory in dominant sea urchins in the Mediterranean (2011, background): “…benthic ecosystems (Lawrence 1975) has been de - monstrated by many ecological experiments along the Mediterranean coasts (e.g. Benedetti-Cecchi & Cinelli 1995, Sala & Zabala 1996, Benedetti-Cecchi et al. 1998, Palacín et al. 1998a, Bulleri et al. 1999, Guidetti et al. 2004, Bonaviri et al. 2011).”