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Measuring biodiversity in marine ecosystems

Nature volume 468, pages 385–386 (2010)Cite this article

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The use of catch data to determine indicators of biodiversity such as 'mean trophic level' does not adequately measure ecosystem changes induced by fishing. Improved ways to assess those changes are required. See Letter p.431

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  1. Joseph E. Powers is in the Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA. jepowers@lsu.edu,

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