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The legacy of past disturbance: Chronic angling impairs long-term recovery of marine epibenthic communities from acute date-mussel harvesting

Valeriano Parravicini, Auteur ; Simon F. Thrush, Auteur ; Mariachiara Chiantore, Auteur ; Carla Morri, Auteur ; Camilla Croci, Auteur ; Carlo Nike Bianchi, Auteur

Dans Biological Conservation (143(11) NOV 2010)

Two major concerns affect the way we perceive impacts: first, no ecosystem can still be considered pristine and second, stressors may interact. Untangling the effects of broad-scale anthropogenic stressors is complicated as appropriate unimpacte[...]

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Spatial Distributions of Grazing Activity and Microphytobenthos Reveal Scale-Dependent Relationships Across a Sedimentary Gradient

Daniel R. Pratt, Auteur ; Conrad A. Pilditch, Auteur ; Andrew M. Lohrer, Auteur ; Simon F. Thrush, Auteur ; Casper Kraan, Auteur

Dans Estuaries and Coasts (38(3) MAY 2015)

The density, spatial structure and functional roles of macrofaunal and microphytobenthic (MPB) communities change across sedimentary gradients. Grazing by macrofauna can impose considerable top-down control on MPB biomass at the scale of the ani[...]

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