Rising catch variability preceded historical fisheries collapses in Alaska

Ecological Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1475-1487

  Litzow, Michael A ^a,b   Mueter, Franz J ^c   Daniel Urban, J ^d  

^a FARALLON INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaskan fisheries; Collapse; Crustacean fisheries; Early warning; Fisheries; Indicators; Management; Multiple stable states; Regime shift; Spatial variability

Indexed keywords

CATCH COMPOSITION; CATCH STATISTICS; CRUSTACEAN CULTURE; DATA SET; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; FISHERY MODELING; SPATIAL VARIATION; STOCK COLLAPSE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); FISH; FISHERY; HISTORY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNITED STATES;

ALASKA; ANIMALS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); FISHERIES; FISHES; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ALASKA; BERING SEA; GULF OF ALASKA; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884241529     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-0670.1     Document Type: Article

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