Business & Economics Commercial Policy
Predictions Under Uncertainty
Fish Assemblages and Food Webs on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland
- Publisher
- Memorial University Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1993
- Category
- Commercial Policy, Fisheries & Aquaculture, Environmental Economics
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780919666818
- Publish Date
- Jan 1993
- List Price
- $27.95
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Gomes, a biologist, draws on a study of commercial fish assemblages on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland to illustrate how uncertainty about the structure of ecological models confounds attempts to predict community dynamics over time; concluding that new adaptive management strategies may be needed to deal with this inherent uncertainty.
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