@article {7325, title = {Death and taxes: the case of the depletion of pearl oyster beds in sixteenth-century Venezuela}, journal = {Conservation Biology}, volume = {17}, number = {4}, year = {2003}, note = {PDFABSTRACT ONLY!Times Cited: 1ArticleEnglishCited References Count: 83706km}, month = {AUG}, pages = {1013-1023}, abstract = {Interdisciplinary approaches have been used not only to interpret past patterns of natural resource utilization but also to provide useful tools for conservation biology and resource management. I report here the depletion of the pearl oyster (Pinctada imbricata) beds off the coast of Cubagua, Venezuela, in the sixteenth century and the replacement of the oyster by the turkey-wing mussel (Area zebra). I used historical tax data to conclude that the rapid depletion of this resource was the result not only of overexploitation in a short period of time but also of the ecology of the place used by humans to carry out such activity. Under conditions of ecological stress generated by overexpoloitation, the turkey-wing mussel outcompeted the pearl oyster, thus preventing its recovery. Finally, I propose that the exploitation of the pearl oyster beds directly influenced the demographic, social, and cultural conditions of the indigenous human populations in the Caribbean and, to a certain extent, in Africa.}, keywords = {bivalvia, conservation, mollusca, pearliculture, pinctada, pteriidae, pterioida, pterioidea}, url = {://000184452900014}, author = {Romero, A.} } @article {6978, title = {The diversity of biodiversity}, journal = {Nature}, volume = {445}, year = {2007}, note = {PDF [bad quality - redownload!]}, keywords = {conservation, phylogenetics, species richness}, author = {Mooers, Arne {\O}.} } @inbook {6008, title = {Experimental sea-ranching of pearl oyster in the Gulf of Mannar}, booktitle = {Pearl culture. Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) Bulletin 39}, year = {1987}, pages = {90-91}, publisher = {Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute}, organization = {Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute}, address = {Cochin, India}, keywords = {bivalvia, conservation, ecology, mollusca, pearliculture, pinctada, pteriidae}, author = {Chellam, A. and Dharmaraj, S. and Victor, A. C. C.}, editor = {Alagarswami, K.} } @article {5768, title = {Population structure and genetic variability of pearl oyster Pinctada mazatlanica along Pacific coasts from Mexico to Panama}, journal = {Conservation Genetics}, volume = {1}, year = {2000}, note = {PDF}, pages = {299-307}, keywords = {bivalvia, conservation, mollusca, pinctada, Pinctada mazatlanica, population genetics, pteriidae, pterioidea}, author = {Arnaud, Sophie and Monteforte, Mario and Galtier, Nicolas and Bonhomme, François and Blanc, Fran{\c c}oise} } @article {5773, title = {Spatio-temporal variation in the genetic composition of wild populations of pearl oyster (Pinctada margaritiferacumingii) in French Polynesia following 10 years of juvenile translocation}, journal = {Molecular Ecology}, volume = {13}, year = {2004}, note = {PDF}, pages = {2001-2007}, keywords = {biogeography, bivalvia, conservation, mollusca, perliculture, pinctada, pinctada margaritifera, pteriidae, pterioidea}, author = {Arnaud-Haond, Sophie and Vonau, V. and Bonhomme, François and Boudry, P. and Blanc, Fran{\c c}oise and Prou, J. and Seaman, T. and Goyard, E.} } @inbook {1051, title = {Experimental sea-ranching of pearl oyster in the Gulf of Mannar}, booktitle = {Pearl culture. Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) Bulletin 39}, year = {1987}, pages = {90-91}, publisher = {Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute}, organization = {Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute}, address = {Cochin, India}, keywords = {bivalvia, conservation, ecology, mollusca, pearliculture, pinctada, pteriidae}, author = {Chellam, A. and Dharmaraj, S. and Victor, A. C. C.}, editor = {Alagarswami, K.} }