Assessing threats to species at risk using stage-structured state - Space models: Mortality trends in skate populations

Ecological Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1347-1364

  Swain, Douglas P ^a   Jonsen, Ian D ^b,c   Simon, James E ^c   Myers, Ransom A ^b  

^a GULF FISHERIES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Fishing mortality; Leucoraja ocellata; Natural mortality; Recovery potential; Species at risk; Stage structured population models; State space models; Winter skate

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADULT; AGE STRUCTURE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BYCATCH; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FISH; FISHING; JUVENILE; MORTALITY; PINNIPED; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION MODELING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ELECTRIC FISH; FOOD INDUSTRY; HISTOLOGY; MORTALITY; PHOCA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; FISHERIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEALS, EARLESS; SKATES (FISH);

HALICHOERUS GRYPUS; LEUCORAJA OCELLATA;

EID: 68149136840     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1699.1     Document Type: Article

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