Maturation trends indicative of rapid evolution preceded the collapse of northern cod

Nature

Volumn 428, Issue 6986, 2004, Pages 932-935

  Olsen, Esben M ^a,d   Heino, Mikko ^a,b   Lilly, George R ^c   Morgan, M Joanne ^c   Brattey, John ^c   Ernande, Bruno ^a   Dieckmann, Ulf ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c NORTHWEST ATLANTIC FISHERIES CENTRE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISHERIES; GROWTH KINETICS; PLASTICITY; POPULATION STATISTICS;

MATURATION; POPULATION SIZES;

NATURAL SCIENCES;

FISHING; GROWTH RATE; MATURATION;

AGE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC COD; BODY SIZE; CANADA; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FISHERY; GOVERNMENT; LIFE HISTORY; MATURATION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGING; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BODY CONSTITUTION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FISHERIES; FISHES; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SEXUAL MATURATION; TIME FACTORS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

GADUS; GADUS MORHUA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 2342446169     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02430     Document Type: Article

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