Interactions between small pelagic fish and young cod across the North Atlantic

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2139-2154

  Minto, Cóilín ^a,b   Worm, Boris ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Atlantic Technological University Sligo   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Competition; Cultivation depensation; Ecosystem based management; Hierarchical Bayesian; Marine fish; Measurement error; Parameter standardization; Population dynamics; Predation; Trophic triangle

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); GADOID; HOLISTIC APPROACH; LIFE CYCLE; PELAGIC FISH; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPECIES INVENTORY; SURVIVAL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CELTIC SEA; GULF OF SAINT LAWRENCE;

EID: 84868221171     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-2036.1     Document Type: Article

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