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dc.contributor.authorGarcía-Isarch, Eva
dc.contributor.authorMuñoz, Isabel
dc.contributor.editorValdés, Luis
dc.contributor.editorDéniz-González, Itahisa
dc.coverage.spatialNorthwest Africaen_US
dc.coverage.spatialCanary Currenten_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-28T11:44:59Z
dc.date.available2016-07-28T11:44:59Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1834/9193
dc.description.abstractDecapods constitute the dominant benthic group in the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem (CCLME). An inventory of the decapod species in this area was made based on the information compiled from surveys and biological collections of the Instituto Español de Oceanografía. A total number of 228 species belonging to 54 families were registered. Brachyura, with 87 different species was the most diversified taxa, followed by Caridea and Anomura with 61 and 33 species, respectively. The high diversity of this group in the CCLME is favoured by the presence of typically temperate species in the North (Morocco-Western Sahara), subtropical-temperate species from Morocco to Mauritania, and typically tropical species in the South (Guinea-Bissau‒Guinea). The diversity in the most temperate and northern zone was higher than in the most tropical and southern zone, with exceptionally high values in Mauritania mainly explained by its special biogeographic and oceanographic conditions. Some decapod species have been exploited by both artisanal and industrial fisheries for decades, providing significant incomes to the coastal states. However, the intense shrimp fishing activities have some negative effects like the overexploitation of certain stocks and the impact on benthic communities by disturbing their physical structures and habitats.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherIOC-UNESCOen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIntergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, Technical Series: 115;
dc.relation.urihttp://www.unesco.org/new/en/ioc/ts115en_US
dc.subject.otherDecapods diversityen_US
dc.subject.otherBiogeographyen_US
dc.subject.otherTemperate speciesen_US
dc.subject.otherTropical speciesen_US
dc.subject.otherCCLMEen_US
dc.titleBiodiversity and biogeography of decapods crustaceans in the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystemen_US
dc.title.alternativeDecapod crustaceans in the CCLMEen_US
dc.typeReport Sectionen_US
dc.description.statusPublisheden_US
dc.format.pagerangepp. 257-271en_US
dc.publisher.placeParis, Franceen_US
dc.subject.asfaASFA15::F::Fisheriesen_US
dc.title.parentOceanographic and biological features in the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem. en_US
dc.type.refereedRefereeden_US
refterms.dateFOA2021-01-30T18:49:07Z


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