Life history change in commercially exploited fish stocks: An analysis of trends across studies

Evolutionary Applications

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 260-275

  Sharpe, Diana M T ^a   Hendry, Andrew P ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contemporary evolution; Darwins; Fisheries induced evolution; Life history evolution; Microevolution; Over fishing; Rapid evolution; Selective harvesting

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953095785     PISSN: 17524563     EISSN: 17524571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2009.00080.x     Document Type: Article

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