Database-driven models of the world's Large Marine Ecosystems

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 220, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 1984-1996

  Christensen, Villy ^a   Walters, Carl J ^a   Ahrens, Robert ^a   Alder, Jacqueline ^b   Buszowski, Joe ^a   Christensen, Line Bang ^a   Cheung, William W L ^a,c   Dunne, John ^d   Froese, Rainer ^e   Karpouzi, Vasiliki ^a   Kaschner, Kristin ^f   Kearney, Kelly ^g   Lai, Sherman ^a   Lam, Vicki ^a   Palomares, Maria L D ^a,h   Peters Mason, Aja ⁱ   Piroddi, Chiara ^a   Sarmiento, Jorge L ^g   Steenbeek, Jeroen ^a   Sumaila, Rashid ^a   Watson, Reg ^a   Zeller, Dirk ^a   Pauly, Daniel ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b United Nations Environment Programme   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^g PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h World Fish Center Makati City   (Philippines)

ⁱ Marine Conservation Biology Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecopath with Ecosim; Ecosystem model; Global modeling; LME

Indexed keywords

ECOPATH WITH ECOSIM; ECOSYSTEM MODEL; FISHING EFFORT; GLOBAL MODELING; LARGE MARINE ECOSYSTEM; LME; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; MODELING APPROACH; TEMPORAL DATABASE; TIME-SERIES DATA;

BIOMASS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

DATABASE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING;

EID: 67649849667     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.04.041     Document Type: Article

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