Rebuilding fish communities: The ghost of fisheries past and the virtue of patience

Ecological Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 374-391

  Collie, Jeremy ^a   Rochet, Marie Joëlle ^b   Bell, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b Institut Français Pour l'Exploitation de la Mer   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Fish community; Georges Bank; Multispecies model; North Sea; Restoration ecology; Selective fishing

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BOTTOM TRAWLING; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; FISH; FISHERY MODELING; FISHING EFFORT; HYSTERESIS; ICHTHYOFAUNA; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MULTISPECIES FISHERY; OVERFISHING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANADA; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUROPE; FISH; FISHERY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EUROPE; FISHERIES; FISHES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GEORGES BANK; NORTH SEA;

EID: 84875858152     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-0877.1     Document Type: Article

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