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The Exploitation of Evolving Resources

Proceedings of an International Conference, held at Jülich, Germany, September 3–5, 1991

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. Kevin Stokes

    1. Fisheries Laboratory, MAFF, Lowestoft, UK

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  2. Jacqueline M. McGlade

    1. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

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  3. Richard Law

    1. Department of Biology, University of York, York, UK

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Biomathematics (LNBM, volume 99)

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Table of contents (17 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages N2-VIII
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  4. Selection Responses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Trade-Offs and Genetic Correlations Among Life-History Traits: Theory and Simulation

      • R. H. Smith, L. A. Linton, R. M. Sibly
      Pages 128-144

    3. The Evolution of Size and Growth in Harvested Natural Populations

      • Mark Kirkpatrick
      Pages 145-154

    4. Cohort-Structured Populations, Selection Responses, and Exploitation of the North Sea Cod

      • Richard Law, Catherine A. Rowell
      Pages 155-173
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About this book

The impact of man on the biosphere is profound. Quite apart from our capacity to destroy natural ecosystems and to drive species to extinction, we mould the evolution of the survivors by the selection pressures we apply to them. This has implications for the continued health of our natural biological resources and for the way in which we seek to optimise yield from those resources. Of these biological resources, fish stocks are particularly important to mankind as a source of protein. On a global basis, fish stocks provide the major source of protein for human consumption from natural ecosystems, amounting to some seventy million tonnes in 1970. Although fisheries management has been extensively developed over the last century, it has not hitherto considered the evolutionary consequences of fishing activity. While this omission may not have been serious in the past, the ever increasing intensity of exploitation and the deteriorating health of fish stocks has generated an urgent need for a better understanding of evolution driven by harvesting and the implications of this for fish stock management. The foundations for this understanding for the most part come from recent developments in evolutionary biology and are not generally available to fisheries scientists. The purpose of this book is to provide this basis in a form that is both accessible and relevant to fisheries biology.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Fisheries Laboratory, MAFF, Lowestoft, UK

    Kevin Stokes

  • Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

    Jacqueline M. McGlade

  • Department of Biology, University of York, York, UK

    Richard Law

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Exploitation of Evolving Resources

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of an International Conference, held at Jülich, Germany, September 3–5, 1991

  • Editors: Kevin Stokes, Jacqueline M. McGlade, Richard Law

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Biomathematics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48394-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-57242-8Published: 11 October 1993

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-48394-3Published: 08 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0341-633X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2196-9981

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 264

  • Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Applied Ecology, Mathematical and Computational Biology, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis

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