The role of artificial reefs to promote biodiversity and sustainability of the ecotourism in Cape Verde: ecological, biological and management aspects

• Author(s): Oliveira, Miguel Tiago Cantiga Lopes de
• Date: 2016
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/8996
• Origin: Sapientia - Universidade do Algarve
• Subject(s): Natural and artificial reefs; Vessel reef; Length-weight and length-length relationships; Fish assemblages; Macrofauna; Cephalopholis taeniops; Habitat complexity; Activity pattern; Acoustic telemetry; AHP; CVM; WTP; Economic analysis; Diving tourism; Marine biodiversity; Conservation; Sal Island (Cape Verde); Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Naturais::Ciências da Terra e do Ambiente
• Document Type: Doctoral thesis
• Language: English
• Advisor(s): Erzini, Karim
• Contributor(s): Sapientia

Description

Tese de doutoramento, Ciências do Mar, da Terra e do Ambiente, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade do Algarve, 2016

This multidisciplinary study aimed to assess the impact of artificial reefs (ARs) deployment off Santa Maria (Sal Island), to promote biodiversity and sustainability of the ecotourism in Cape Verde.