Nursery habitat availability limits adult stock sizes of predatory coastal fish

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 672-680

  Sundblad, Göran ^a,c   Bergström, Ulf ^b   Sandström, Alfred ^b   Eklöv, Peter ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c AquaBiota Water Research   (Sweden)

Author keywords

coastal management; conservation; essential fish habitat; fisheries management; generalized additive models; maximum entropy; niche models; random forest; species distribution modelling

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHERY SURVEY; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT CONSERVATION; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; MINIMUM VIABLE POPULATION; NICHE; NUMERICAL MODEL; NURSERY GROUND; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SIZE; PREDATOR; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

EID: 84893982116     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fst056     Document Type: Article

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