Assessment of the Recovering Effects of Protected Areas Using a Multiple Functional Approaches: The Bamboung Model (Senegal, West Africa)

The Bamboung protected area (Senegal, West Africa) has been implemented in 2003. However, little is known about its recovering effects on fish assemblage functional diversity. To address this issue, a morphology-based functional grouping was adopted, and results were compared to prior classifications. Functional richness relative to each guild and species abundance was used to define a functional redundancy index. Morphometric measurements were...