Multi-decadal responses of a cod (Gadus morhua) population to human-induced trophic changes, fishing, and climate

Ecological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 214-226

  Eero, Margit ^a   MacKenzie, Brian R ^a   Köster, Friedrich W ^a   Gislason, Henrik ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Climate; Cod; Eutrophication; Gadus morhua; Historical development of the cod population; Human impacts; Seal predation

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; DECADAL VARIATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EUTROPHICATION; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHING; GADOID; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYDROGRAPHY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PINNIPED; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRESSURE EFFECT; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TIMESCALE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC COD; CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GADUS MORHUA; HUMANS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

GADUS CALLARIAS; GADUS MORHUA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 79955525904     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-1879.1     Document Type: Article

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