The global ocean is an ecosystem: Simulating marine life and fisheries

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 507-517

  Christensen, Villy ^a   Coll, Marta ^b,c   Buszowski, Joe ^c   Cheung, William W L ^a   Frölicher, Thomas ^d,f   Steenbeek, Jeroen ^c   Stock, Charles A ^d   Watson, Reg A ^e   Walters, Carl J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c Ecopath International Initiative Research Association   (Spain)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^f ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ecosystem model; End to end model; Fish biomass trends; Fish catches; Food security; Model tuning; Seafood production; World ocean

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FOOD PRODUCTION; FOOD SECURITY; FOOD WEB; GLOBAL OCEAN; SEAFOOD;

INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84926250063     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12281     Document Type: Article

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