@article {455,
	title = {Rocky bottom fish communities of Cabrera Archipelago National Park (Mallorca, Western Mediterranean)},
	journal = {Science Marine},
	volume = {61},
	year = {1997},
	abstract = {<p>In the present study the fish communities of the rocky bottoms of  Cabrera Archipelago (Balearic Islands) are analysed and provide data for  future evaluation of any changes produced by management. Visual counts  were carried out by diving along transects situated in areas of rocky  blocks at depths of -10 m, -25 m and -41 m and at vertical cliffs -15 m  deep. In the 10 stations studied, 48 species belonging to 19 families  have been recorded. The increase in depth principally produced a  specific impoverishment and a decrease in the density of mesophagous and  macrophagous carnivore species. This tendency became more noticeable  changing from the infralittoral to the circalittoral stage. In the  infralittoral stage the substrate rugosity was a more important factor  than depth in the structure of the fish community. However, other  specific characteristics of each zone such as algal cover, hydrodynamic  conditions and fishing pressure, as well as habitat changes with size of  some species, also affected the specific composition and demographic  structure of the fish community.</p>},
	keywords = {algae, Balearic Islands, buffer zone, Cabrera, density, depth, distribution, fish, fish assemblage, fishery impact, habitat, island, labridae, management, marine protected area, Mediterranean sea, mullidae, national park, no-take area, rocky shore, Sciaenidae, serranidae, size, Spain, sparidae, transects, visual census, western Mediterranean, zoning},
	author = {O. Renones and B. Morales-Nin and J. Coll and J. Moranta}
}
