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Nature 452, 825-826 (17 April 2008) | doi:10.1038/452825a; Published online 16 April 2008
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Ecology: Destabilized fish stocks
Nils Chr. Stenseth1 & Tristan Rouyer1
Abstract
Fishing of natural populations increases the variability of fish abundance. A unique data set from the southern California Current has allowed an evaluation of three hypotheses for why that should be so.
Understanding variation in the abundances of plants and animals has long been a central topic in population ecology1. It is one of particular significance when it comes to exploited populations, such as those of many fish stocks, and is revisited by Anderson et al.page 835 of this issue2.
- Nils Chr. Stenseth and Tristan Rouyer are at the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biology, University of Oslo, PO Box 1066 Blindern, N-0316 Oslo, Norway.
Email: n.c.stenseth@bio.uio.no
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