Hierarchical modelling of temperature and habitat size effects on population dynamics of North Atlantic cod

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 833-855

  Mantzouni, Irene ^a   Sørensen, Helle ^b   O'Hara, Robert B ^c   MacKenzie, Brian R ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carrying capacity; Cod; Hierarchical models; North Atlantic; Temperature; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CARRYING CAPACITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; GADOID; HABITAT TYPE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION MODELING; PREDICTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SIZE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

GADUS MORHUA;

EID: 77953623092     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsp291     Document Type: Article

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