Understanding what controls the spatial distribution of fish populations using a multi-model approach

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-17

  Planque, Benjamin ^a   Loots, Christophe ^b   Petitgas, Pierre ^b   Lindstrøm, Ulf ^a   Vaz, Sandrine ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Demographic structure; Density dependent habitat selection; Environmental control; Fish spatial distribution models; Multi model inference; Population memory; Spatial dependency

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINT; FISH; HABITAT SELECTION; MOVEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION ECOLOGY; POPULATION MODELING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 78650064096     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2010.00546.x     Document Type: Article

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