The power of ecosystem monitoring

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 17, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages

  Reid, Keith ^a   Croxall, John P ^a   Murphy, Eugene J ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antarctic krill Euphausia superba; Ecosystem monitoring; Fisheries; Statistical power

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CRUSTACEAN; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; POPULATION MODELING;

ANTARCTICA; SOUTH GEORGIA;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA; EUPHAUSIACEA;

EID: 40549119554     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: 10990755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.909     Document Type: Conference Paper

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