The Application of Dynamic Modeling to Prediction of Production Carrying Capacity in Shellfish Farming

Shellfish Aquaculture and the Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 135-154

  Grant, Jon ^a   Filgueira, Ramón ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bivalve aquaculture; Carrying capacity (CC) and seston depletion; Dynamic modeling and shellfish farming; ECASA (Ecosystem Approach for Sustainable Aquaculture); Ecosystem process models; Physical oceanographic models; Residence time (RT); Shellfish ecosystem models; Simulation models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855338716     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470960967.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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