<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Casu</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ceccherelli</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Curini-Galletti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Castelli</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Human exclusion from rocky shores in a mediterranean marine protected area (MPA): An opportunity to investigate the effects of trampling</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Marine Environmental Research</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Asinara</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">assemblage</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">benthic invertebrate</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">human impact</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">impact</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">invertebrate</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">island</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Italy</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">marine protected area</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mediterranean sea</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">protected area</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">rocky shore</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sardinia</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">tourism</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">trampling</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">visitation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">western Mediterranean</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006</style></year></dates><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;The effect of human trampling on the abundance of small invertebrates inhabiting rocky shallow bottoms was studied at Asinara Island MPA. To this aim we have conducted two experiments. The first was a quantitative study and tested the hypothesis that small invertebrates are more abundant at no-entry locations than at the location visited by tourists through time (before, during and after tourist season). The second was a manipulative experiment and tested the hypothesis that the abundance of small invertebrates is indirectly related to experimental trampling intensities.The effect due to tourist visitation was not highlighted on overall assemblages, suggesting that present seasonal tourist load at the MPA does not cause a significantly negative effect on the zoobenthic community studied. Although tourists exhibited trampling activity at the visited location, none of taxa examined showed a significant lower abundance during and strictly after the end of seasonal tourism peak in the visited location, rather than at control locations. However, results obtained with the second experiment suggested that the effects of different experimental trampling intensities on small invertebrates were variable among taxa. The experimental trampling caused immediate declines in the density of tanaids, nematodes, acari, bivalves, gammarids, echinoderms, isopods, and harpacticoids. For some of these taxa a recovery in abundance was observed within one month.
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