Stochastic population dynamics and life-history variation in marine fish species

American Naturalist

Volumn 180, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 372-387

  Bjørkvoll, Eirin ^a   Grøtan, Vidar ^a   Aanes, Sondre ^b,d   Sæther, Bernt Erik ^a   Engen, Steinar ^a   Aanes, Ronny ^a,c,e  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN COMPUTING CENTER   (Norway)

^e Directorate for Nature Management   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bayesian hierarchical modeling; Environmental stochasticity; Natural mortality; Observation error; Slow fast continuum; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

DEEP WATER; ERROR ANALYSIS; FISH; GENERATION TIME; GROWTH RATE; HARVESTING; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION ESTIMATION; STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FISH; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; FEMALE; FISHES; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA;

EID: 84864655090     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/666983     Document Type: Article

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