Resource sustainability in small-scale fisheries in the Lower Amazon floodplains

Fisheries Research

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 356-364

  Castello, Leandro ^a   McGrath, David G ^a,b,c   Beck, Pieter S A ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA AMBIENTAL DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Community; Floodplain; Management; Multispecies; Overfishing; Sigmoid model

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959200759     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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