A cross-ecosystem comparison of spatial and temporal patterns of covariation in the recruitment of functionally analogous fish stocks

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 81, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 63-92

  Megrey, Bernard A ^a   Hare, Jonathan A ^b,c   Stockhausen, William T ^a   Dommasnes, Are ^d   Gjøsæter, Harald ^d   Overholtz, William ^b,c   Gaichas, Sarah ^a   Skaret, Georg ^d   Falk Petersen, Jannike ^d   Link, Jason S ^b,c   Friedland, Kevin D ^b,c  

^a ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONY; BASIN ECOSYSTEMS; BERING SEA; BIOPHYSICAL CAUSE; COEFFICIENTS OF VARIATIONS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COVARIATION; CROSS-CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXTERNAL FACTORS; FEEDING GUILDS; FISH STOCK; GULF OF ALASKA; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; OCEAN BASINS; REGIME SHIFT; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL PATTERN; TEMPORAL PATTERN; VARIABLE COEFFICIENTS;

BIOMASS; DAMPING; EMPLOYMENT; FEEDING; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BIOMASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FISH; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; GUILD; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPATIAL VARIATION; SPAWNING; SYNCHRONY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; BERING SEA; GEORGES BANK; GULF OF ALASKA; GULF OF MAINE; NORWEGIAN SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 67651147970     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2009.04.006     Document Type: Article

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