A century of fish biomass decline in the ocean

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 512, Issue , 2014, Pages 155-166

  Christensen, Villy ^a   Coll, Marta ^b,c,d   Piroddi, Chiara ^e   Steenbeek, Jeroen ^d   Buszowski, Joe ^d   Pauly, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^d Ecopath International Initiative Research Association   (Spain)

^e JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ecosystem models; Fish biomass; Fishing down; Global distribution; Marine food webs; Trends

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOMASS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FISH; FOOD WEB; HABITAT SELECTION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84907951175     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10946     Document Type: Article

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