Comparative demography of skates: life-history correlates of productivity and implications for management.

Age-structured demographic models were constructed based on empirical estimates of longevity and maturity for five deepwater Bering Sea skates to investigate how observed differences in life history parameters affect population growth rates. Monte Carlo simulations were used to incorporate parameter...

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Main Authors: Lewis A K Barnett, Megan V Winton, Shaara M Ainsley, Gregor M Cailliet, David A Ebert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3669027?pdf=render