| Description |
xv, 542 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Biological resource management series |
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Biological resource management series.
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| Contents |
1. Population Growth, Mortality, and the Fishing Process -- 2. Stock Productivity and Surplus Production -- 3. Stock and Recruitment -- 4. Growth and Fecundity -- 5. Delay-Difference Models -- 6. Age-structured Models: Per-Recruit and Year-Class Models -- 7. Age-structured Models: Renewal Theory -- 8. Catch-age and Age-structured Assessment Methods -- 9. Size-structured Models and Assessment Methods -- 10. Migration, Movement, and Other Spatiotemporal Considerations |
| Summary |
The fields of fish population dynamics and stock assessment have seen major advances in the 1980s and 1990s, creating the need for a new synthesis. This text attempts that synthesis by presenting a contemporary approach for quantitative fisheries science that incorporates modern statistical and mathematical techniques. It emphasizes the link between biology and theory by explaining the assumptions inherent in the quantitative methods and models. The book covers key topics that are often overlooked in other texts, such as optimal harvesting, migratory stocks, and complex age and size-structured models. Quantitative Fish Dynamics is an ideal textbook for graduate and undergraduate courses in fish population dynamics and stock assessment. It is an indispensable reference work for fisheries scientists and others interested in conservation biology, fish and wildlife management, population ecology, and statistical applications |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 486-516) and index |
| Subject |
Fish populations -- Mathematical models.
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| Author |
Deriso, R. B. (Richard B.)
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| LC no. |
97035538 |
| ISBN |
0195076311 acid-free paper |
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0019507631 cloth alkaline paper |
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0195076311 : |
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0195076311 acidfree paper |
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0019507631 cloth alk. paper |
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0195076311 |
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