Regime shifts, resilience and recovery of a cod stock

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 402, Issue , 2010, Pages 239-253

  Lindegren, Martin ^a   Diekmann, Rabea ^a,b   Möllmann, Christian ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atlantic cod; Ecosystem; Gadus morhua; Management; Regime shift; Resilience; The Sound

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; GADOID FISHERY; OVERFISHING; STOCK COLLAPSE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; NORTH SEA; ORESUND;

GADUS MORHUA;

EID: 77954095365     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08454     Document Type: Article

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