Still more spawner-recruitment curves: The hockey stick and its generalizations

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 665-676

  Barrowman, Nicholas J ^a   Myers, Ransom A ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISHERY MANAGEMENT; POPULATION MODELING; RECRUITMENT; SPAWNING;

EID: 0034032717     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/f99-282     Document Type: Article

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