Why are quantitative relationships between environmental quality and fish populations so elusive?

Ecological Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 367-385

  Rose, Kenneth A ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental quality; Fish; Fisheries, habitat, and pollution; Individual based models; Life history theory; Multidisciplinary studies; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; FISHERY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0033850246     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2000)010[0367:WAQRBE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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