Advancing the use of local ecological knowledge for assessing data-poor species in coastal ecosystems

Ecological Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 244-256

  Beaudreau, Anne H ^a,c   Levin, Phillip S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance trends; Endangered species act; Historical baselines; Information environment; Local ecological knowledge (LEK); Puget sound; Rockfish; Sebastes; Stakeholder perceptions

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; DATABASE; ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT; HISTORICAL RECORD; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PERCEPTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STAKEHOLDER; TELEOST; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE; VULNERABILITY;

PUGET SOUND; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISH; HUMAN; INVERTEBRATE; KNOWLEDGE; METHODOLOGY; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; TIME; UNITED STATES;

AGING; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; HUMANS; INVERTEBRATES; KNOWLEDGE; PACIFIC OCEAN; POPULATION DENSITY; TIME FACTORS; WASHINGTON;

EID: 84899518087     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-0817.1     Document Type: Article

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