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Nature 425, 125-126 (11 September 2003) | doi:10.1038/425125a
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Head, Protein Production Unit
- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research
- Copenhagen 2200 Denmark
Senior Research Fellow - Atlantic Ocean Circulation and Climate
- University of Southampton
- Southampton / Hampshire United Kingdom
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BOOK REVIEWED-In a Perfect Ocean
by Daniel Pauly & & Jay Maclean
Island Press: 2003. 175 pp. $50, £38.50 (hbk); $26, £19.50 (pbk)
Daniel Pauly is a pioneer of bold new methods for the assessment of marine ecosystems. His methods for estimating natural mortality rates, for interpreting length– frequency distributions and for quantifying energy pathways in marine food webs were all highly controversial when they were introduced, but are now accepted as providing useful rough and ready approximations to reality.
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