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Computation and interpretation of biological statistics of fish populations

William E. Ricker
- Vol. 191, pp 1-382
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Compensatory growth in fishes: a response to growth depression

M. Ali, +2 more
- 01 Jun 2003 - 
TL;DR: Ali, M., Nicieza, A., Wootton, R. J. et al. as discussed by the authors have shown that compensatory growth in fishes is a response to growth depression.
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Early Warnings of Regime Shifts: A Whole-Ecosystem Experiment

Stephen R. Carpenter, +11 more
- 27 May 2011 - 
TL;DR: High-frequency monitoring of manipulated and reference lakes enabled early detection of subsequent catastrophic regime shift in an aquatic food web, corroborating theory for leading indicators of ecological regime shifts.
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Compensatory density dependence in fish populations: importance, controversy, understanding and prognosis

Kenneth A. Rose, +4 more
- 01 Dec 2001 - 
TL;DR: This work advocates an approach to compensation that involves process-level understanding of the underlying mechanisms, life-history theory, careful analysis of field data, and matrix and individual-based modelling.
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Fisheries stock assessment and decision analysis: the Bayesian approach

André E. Punt, +1 more
- 01 Mar 1997 - 
TL;DR: Using the Bayesian approach to stock assessment and decision analysis it becomes possible to admit the full range of uncertainty and use the collective historical experience of fisheries science when estimating the consequences of proposed management actions.
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Secondary Production in Inland Waters 1

Thomas F. Waters
- 01 Jan 1977 - 
TL;DR: This chapter discusses a selected portion of aquatic production biology, secondary production in inland waters, and focuses on three groups, fishes, zoobenthos, and zooplankton, which have received most attention, and for which methodology has been best worked out.