An ocean observation system for monitoring the affects of climate change on the ecology and sustainability of pelagic fisheries in the Pacific Ocean

Climatic Change

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 131-145

  Nicol, Simon J ^a   Allain, Valerie ^a   Pilling, Graham M ^a   Polovina, Jeff ^b   Coll, Marta ^c   Bell, Johann ^a   Dalzell, Paul ^d   Sharples, Peter ^a   Olson, Robert ^e   Griffiths, Shane ^f   Dambacher, Jeffrey M ^f   Young, Jock ^f   Lewis, Antony ^a   Hampton, John ^a   Jurado Molina, Jesus ^a   Hoyle, Simon ^a   Briand, Karine ^a   Bax, Nic ^f   Lehodey, Patrick ^g   Williams, Peter ^a  

^a SECRETARIAT OF THE PACIFIC COMMUNITY   (New Caledonia)

^b NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^d Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council   (United States)

^e INTER AMERICAN TROPICAL TUNA COMMISSION   (United States)

^f CSIRO   (Australia)

^g CLS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION; ECOSYSTEM MONITORING; FISHERIES MANAGEMENT; OCEAN OBSERVATION SYSTEMS; OCEANIC ECOSYSTEMS; SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT; TARGET AND NON TARGETS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FISHERIES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ECOSYSTEMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OCEANOGRAPHY; PELAGIC FISHERY; PERCIFORM; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TROPHIC LEVEL;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

SCOMBRIDAE;

EID: 84879149751     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0598-y     Document Type: Article

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