Lanice conchilega, fisheries and marine conservation: Towards an ecosystem approach to marine management
Rabaut, M. (2009). Lanice conchilega, fisheries and marine conservation: Towards an ecosystem approach to marine management. PhD Thesis. Ghent University: Gent. ISBN 978-90-8756-025-6. xvii, 354 pp.
Rabaut, M.; Guilini, K.; Van Hoey, G.; Vincx, M.; Degraer, S. (2009). A bio-engineered soft-bottom environment: the impact of Lanice conchilega on the benthic species-specific densities and community structure, in: Rabaut, M. Lanice conchilega, fisheries and marine conservation: Towards an ecosystem approach to marine management. pp. 31-55, meer
Rabaut, M.; Vincx, M.; Degraer, S. (2009). Do Lanice conchilega (sandmason) aggregations classify as reefs? Quantifying habitat modifying effects, in: Rabaut, M. Lanice conchilega, fisheries and marine conservation: Towards an ecosystem approach to marine management. pp. 57-76, meer
Rabaut, M.; Vincx, M.; Hendrickx, F.; Degraer, S. (2009). The resistance of Lanice conchilega reefs to physical disturbance, in: Rabaut, M. Lanice conchilega, fisheries and marine conservation: Towards an ecosystem approach to marine management. pp. 79-90, meer
Rabaut, M.; Braeckman, U.; Hendrickx, F.; Vincx, M.; Degraer, S. (2009). Experimental beam-trawling in Lanice conchilega reefs: impact on the associated fauna, in: Rabaut, M. Lanice conchilega, fisheries and marine conservation: Towards an ecosystem approach to marine management. pp. 91-107, meer
Rabaut, M.; Van de Moortel, L.; Vincx, M.; Degraer, S. (2009). Biogenic reefs as structuring factor in Pleuronectes platessa (Plaice) nursery, in: Rabaut, M. Lanice conchilega, fisheries and marine conservation: Towards an ecosystem approach to marine management. pp. 111-121, meer
Rabaut, M.; Van de Moortel, L.; van Dalfsen, J.; Vincx, M.; Degraer, S. (2009). Importance of eco-engineered inshore habitats for juvenile flatfish, in: Rabaut, M. Lanice conchilega, fisheries and marine conservation: Towards an ecosystem approach to marine management. pp. 123-145, meer
Rabaut, M.; Degraer, S.; Schrijvers, J.; Derous, S.; Bogaert, D.; Maes, F.; Vincx, M.; Cliquet, A. (2009). Policy analysis of the MPA-process in temperate continental shelf areas, in: Rabaut, M. Lanice conchilega, fisheries and marine conservation: Towards an ecosystem approach to marine management. pp. 149-173, meer
Rabaut, M.; Cliquet, A. (2009). The dynamics of the marine environment versus the rigid interpretation of nature conservation law, in: Rabaut, M. Lanice conchilega, fisheries and marine conservation: Towards an ecosystem approach to marine management. pp. 175-199, meer
Van Hoey, G.; Guilini, K.; Rabaut, M.; Vincx, M.; Degraer, S. (2009). Ecological implications of the presence of the tube-building polychaete Lanice conchilega on soft-bottom benthic ecosystems, in: Rabaut, M. Lanice conchilega, fisheries and marine conservation: Towards an ecosystem approach to marine management. pp. 235-254, meer
Abstract
This doctoral thesis bridges experimental research and policy issues in the marine environment. The focus is on the challenging relation between nature conservation and current fisheries practices. The study sites investigated consist largely of sedimentary sand banks and swales, situated in North-Western Europe. A particular biogenic habitat has been chosen to study both the ecological importance and the resilience towards the physical disturbance of beam-trawling. This habitat is Lanice conchilega reefs, which are distinct aggregations of tube dwelling polychaetes (bristle worms). The implications of these tube worm reefs for the benthic environment as well as for flatfish species are studied in depth and several experiments (in lab and field conditions) quantify the impact of beam trawl fisheries. The thesis finishes by integrating these results in legal policy options and discusses the process of MPA-implementation. The general discussion elaborates how this thesis may contribute to the application of an ecosystem approach to support marine management
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