Hazard warning: Model misuse ahead

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2300-2306

  Dickey Collas, Mark ^a   Payne, Mark R ^b   Trenkel, Verena M ^c   Nash, Richard D M ^d  

^a ICES ^*  (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c IFREMER   (France)

^d IMR   (Norway)

Author keywords

Climate; fisheries; GAM; management; prediction; projection; recruitment; time series analysis

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHERY MODELING; FISHERY SCIENCE; KNOWLEDGE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 84911062636     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fst215     Document Type: Article

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