Ecological forecasting under climate change: The case of Baltic cod

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1691, 2010, Pages 2121-2130

  Lindegren, Martin ^a   Möllmann, Christian ^b   Nielsen, Anders ^a   Brander, Keith ^a   MacKenzie, Brian R ^a,c   Stenseth, Nils Chr ^d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Baltic sea; Climate change; Cod; Ecological forecasting; Risk assessment; Sustainable management

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FISHING; FOOD WEB; GADOID; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALINITY; STOCHASTICITY; SURVIVAL; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TROPHIC LEVEL; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; VULNERABILITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

EID: 77955378420     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0353     Document Type: Article

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