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In this chapter we consider linkages between body size, exploitation and aquatic conservation at all three scales: individuals, ...

that disappearance. Thus, the near-extinction of the common skate,Dipturus batis, from the Irish Sea was brought to the world’s ...

to mortality (Jennings, Reynolds & Mills,1998). In a second study, using a phylogenetic comparative approach to account for ...

of animals and their responses to exploitation. Relationships between metab- olism and size are further modified by chemical com ...

capacity. There is a strong theoretical literature that links body size tormax, through links with key components ofrmaxsuch as ...

the surrogates used to measure it, such as the slope at the origin of a spawner- recruitment relationship, apply to small popula ...

of fishing even low fishing mortality could rapidly deplete these populations since they would show little compensatory response ...

each size class (Kerr & Dickie,2001). Availability of energy at size, and hence the scaling of abundance and body mass, can ...

obtain. However, available evidence suggests that the slopes respond principally to fishing rather than to other drivers such as ...

turnover time of the exploited community (1/P:B) was almost twice as fast as that of the unexploited community, falling from 3.5 ...

Models of the effects of varying fishing mortality on the slope of size spectra have focused on the various processes that lead ...

that reflects the rate of growth towards asymptotic length (L 1 ). One limitation of the application of this approach was that t ...

spectra being partially driven by the proliferation of fish in smaller size classes: for the North Sea (Daanet al., 2005), Fijia ...

by associating species identity with a maximum length. This allows the model to beused topredictthe proportionofspecies withdiff ...

some of the most influential scientists working on the development of fisheries assessment methods were responsible for theoreti ...

Boudreau, P. R., Dickie, L. M. & Kerr, S. R. (1991). Body-size spectra of production and biomass as system-level indicators ...

Gilkinson, K., Paulin, M., Hurley, S. & Schwinghamer, P. (1998). Impacts of trawl door scouring on infaunal bivalves: result ...

contrasting life histories.Journal of Animal Ecology, 68 , 617–627. Jennings, S., Kaiser, M. J. & Reynolds, J.D. (2001a).Mar ...

R. Carroll. Massachusetts: Sinauer, Sunderland. Reynolds, J.D., Dulvy, N. K., Goodwin, N.B. & Hutchings, J. A. (2005). Biolo ...

CHAPTER FIFTEEN How body size mediates the role of animals in nutrient cycling in aquatic ecosystems ROBERT O.HALL,JR. Universit ...