Improving the Reliability of Fishery Predictions Under Climate Change

Current Climate Change Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 40-48

  Brander, Keith ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate; Fish distribution; Fisheries; Fishery management; Fishery potential; Global models; IPCC; Marine ecosystems; Recruitment; Regional impacts; Spatial dynamics; Temperature impacts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991469914     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21986061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40641-015-0005-7     Document Type: Review

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