Evaluating a multispecies adaptive management framework: Must uncertainty impede effective decision-making?

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1431-1440

  Smith, David R ^a   Mcgowan, Conor P ^b   Daily, Jonathan P ^a   Nichols, James D ^c   Sweka, John A ^d   Lyons, James E ^c  

^a LEETOWN SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d Northeast Fishery Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive resource management; Calidris canutus rufa; Expected value of information; Horseshoe crab; Limulus polyphemus; Management strategy evaluation; Multispecies management; Red knot; Stochastic dynamic programming

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CRAB; DECISION MAKING; LEARNING; NATURAL RESOURCE; OPTIMIZATION; SPAWNING; STOPOVER; WADER;

DELAWARE BAY; UNITED STATES;

CALIDRIS CANUTUS; CALIDRIS CANUTUS RUFA; LIMULUS; LIMULUS POLYPHEMUS; MEROSTOMATA;

EID: 84887616285     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12145     Document Type: Article

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