Recruitment in Marine Fish Populations

Fish Reproductive Biology: Implications for Assessment and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 9-47

  Fogarty, Michael J ^a   O'Brien, Loretta ^a  

^a NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biology, population dynamics and recruitment; Compensatory and overcompensatory models; Cushing Shepherd type model relating recruitment and egg production at three levels; Depensatory processes and Allee effect; Egg production or spawning stock biomass; Marine fish population recruitment; Recruitment theory; Stability and resilience of populations to exploitation; Understanding recruitment processes predicting response of population to exploitation and management actions

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049352119     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444312133.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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