Decision analysis for designing marine protected areas for multiple species with uncertain fishery status

Ecological Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1523-1541

  White, Wilson J ^a   Botsford, Louis W ^a   Moffitt, Elizabeth A ^a   Fischer, Douglas T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Decision analysis; Decision support; Fishery stock status; Fishery yield; Marine protected area (MPA); Metapopulation persistence; Overfishing; Spatially explicit population model; USA

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DESIGN; HABITAT TYPE; MARINE PARK; META-ANALYSIS; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION MODELING; STOCK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; YIELD;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISH; FOOD INDUSTRY; PHYSIOLOGY; FISHERY;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DEMOGRAPHY; FISHERIES; FISHES;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956450870     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-0962.1     Document Type: Article

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