Coherent trends in contiguous survey time-series of major ecological and commercial fish species in the Gulf of Maine ecosystem

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 26-40

  Nye, Janet A ^a   Bundy, Alida ^b   Shackell, Nancy ^b   Friedland, Kevin D ^c   Link, Jason S ^a  

^a NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation; Bay of Fundy; Coherence; Dynamic factor analysis; Georges Bank; Gulf of Maine; Minimum maximum autocorrelation analysis; Scotian Shelf; Synchrony; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; AUTOCORRELATION; BIOMASS; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FISHING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SYNCHRONY; TIME SERIES; TREND ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MAINE;

AMBLYRAJA RADIATA; CLUPEA HARENGUS; GADUS MORHUA; LOPHIIDAE; MELANOGRAMMUS; MYOXOCEPHALUS OCTODECEMSPINOSUS; SQUALIDAE; SQUALUS ACANTHIAS;

EID: 73549087639     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsp216     Document Type: Article

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