Uncertainties in projecting spatial distributions of marine populations

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1045-1050

  Planque, Benjamin ^a   Bellier, Edwige ^b   Loots, Christophe ^c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^d Laboratoire Ressources Halieutique   (France)

Author keywords

complex adaptive systems; conceptual models; model evaluation; multiple hypotheses; scales; spatial distribution; statistical modelling

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURVEY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79959527802     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsr007     Document Type: Article

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