Marine Mammal Impacts in Exploited Ecosystems: Would Large Scale Culling Benefit Fisheries?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Morissette, Lyne ^a,b   Christensen, Villy ^b   Pauly, Daniel ^b  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE LA MER DE RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULLING; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FISHERY; FOOD INTAKE; MARINE MAMMAL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION (BIOMASS); PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; FISHERIES; FOOD; FOOD CHAIN; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEAWATER;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84866070809     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043966     Document Type: Article

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