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Daily Archives: May 27, 2014

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Declining productivity of cod stocks

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Productivity is a central determinant of population dynamics with consequences for population viability, resilience to exploitation, and extinction. In fish, the strength of a cohort is typically established during early life stages. Traditional approaches to measuring productivity do not allow for interannual variation in the maximum reproductive rate, a parameter governing population productivity. Allowing such process variation provides the ability to track dynamic changes instead of assuming a static productivity regime. Here we develop and evaluate a multivariate stock–recruitment state-space model to simultaneously estimate time-varying stock productivity and synchronicity of dynamics across populations.

May 27, 2014
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MAINSTREET NS | May 27, 2014 | 8:24

Beach cleanups

Boris talks about the things modern day beachcombers are finding, and what can be done to stem the endless tide of garbage.
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Long-term trends in ocean chlorophyll

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Marine phytoplankton account for approximately half of the production of organic matter on earth, support virtually all marine ecosystems, constrain fisheries yields, and influence climate and weather. Despite this importance, long-term trajectories of phytoplankton abundance or biomass are difficult to estimate, and the extent of changes is unresolved. Here, we use a new, publicly-available database of historical shipboard oceanographic measurements to estimate long-term changes in chlorophyll concentration from 1890 to 2010.

May 27, 2014
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  • The totally amazing discovery of a 60-million strong icefish nesting colony in Antarctica. How much better does it… https://t.co/sZ0zTcAFqx160 days ago
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  • Very thought-provoking article on #scienceliteracy and what it means for our daily lives. Quote: "most of what you… https://t.co/kYkzqsHHBx170 days ago
  • Warmer, oxygen-poor waters may reduce productivity of world’s largest fishery - new study in Science https://t.co/MIzOrmITDm via @Mongabay174 days ago
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