Importance of age structure in models of the response of upper trophic levels to fishing and climate change

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1270-1283

  Botsford, Louis W ^a   Holland, Matthew D ^a   Samhouri, Jameal F ^b   White, J Wilson ^a   Hastings, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

age structure; climate; fisheries; population modelling; upper trophic levels

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGE STRUCTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA SET; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FISHING; GADOID; JUVENILE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POPULATION MODELING; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REPRODUCTION; SALMONID; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVIVAL; TIMESCALE; TROPHIC LEVEL;

EID: 79959496757     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsr042     Document Type: Article

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