Getting the right answer from the wrong model: Evaluating the sensitivity of multispecies fisheries advice to uncertain species interactions

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 563-581

  Essington, Timothy E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHERY MODELING; FOOD WEB; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

EID: 4143055933     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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