Collapse and conservation of shark populations in the Northwest Atlantic

Science

Volumn 299, Issue 5605, 2003, Pages 389-392

  Baum, Julia K ^a   Myers, Ransom A ^a   Kehler, Daniel G ^a   Worm, Boris ^a   Harley, Shelton J ^a   Doherty, Penny A ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATA REDUCTION; POPULATION STATISTICS;

SEA TURTLES;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

EXPLOITATION; POPULATION DECLINE; SHARK; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MODEL; NONHUMAN; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHARK; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; SHARKS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

ALOPIINAE (ELASMOBRANCH); CHELONIIDAE; CHONDRICHTHYES; SCOMBRIDAE; SPHYRNA LEWINI; TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037449550     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1079777     Document Type: Article

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