Environmental and resource variability off Northwest Africa and in the gulf of guinea: A review Export

@inbook{Roy02, abstract = {Environmental monitoring off West Africa relies mainly on a set of coastal stations, on the COADS data base and on satellite imagery. This provides useful information on a limited set of variables such as SST and wind. These variables can be related to fish population dynamics at different scales of observation including short-term changes in fish availability, year to year abundance or lower frequency regime shifts. Tools such as multiple time series analysis, GAM (General Additive Models) and IBM (Individual Based Models) can help to track time lags, non-linear relationships and discontinuities that exist between environmental variables and fish populations. These methods can help to further understand ecological processes in relation to environmental variability. Relatively few oceanographic surveys have been done off West Africa and the existing oceanographic data are difficult to access. As new information on environment, resources, fisheries and their interaction are needed for management purposes and research, particular attention should be devoted to process oriented studies. Given constraints on human and financial resources, the challenge is to achieve an appropriate balance between monitoring and process-oriented studies.}, author = {Roy, C. and Cury, P. and Freon, P. and Demarcq, H.}, booktitle = {The Gulf of Guinea Large Marine Ecosystem - Environmental Forcing \& Sustainable Development of Marine Resources}, chapter = {10}, citeulike-article-id = {5940339}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1570-0461(02)80032-5}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1570046102800325}, doi = {10.1016/S1570-0461(02)80032-5}, issn = {15700461}, keywords = {environment, fish, fisheries, lme, upwellings}, pages = {121--139}, posted-at = {2009-10-14 19:21:15}, priority = {2}, series = {Large Marine Ecosystems}, title = {Environmental and resource variability off Northwest Africa and in the gulf of guinea: A review}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1570-0461(02)80032-5}, volume = {11}, year = {2002} }

TY - CHAP ID - Roy02 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5940339 N2 - Environmental monitoring off West Africa relies mainly on a set of coastal stations, on the COADS data base and on satellite imagery. This provides useful information on a limited set of variables such as SST and wind. These variables can be related to fish population dynamics at different scales of observation including short-term changes in fish availability, year to year abundance or lower frequency regime shifts. Tools such as multiple time series analysis, GAM (General Additive Models) and IBM (Individual Based Models) can help to track time lags, non-linear relationships and discontinuities that exist between environmental variables and fish populations. These methods can help to further understand ecological processes in relation to environmental variability. Relatively few oceanographic surveys have been done off West Africa and the existing oceanographic data are difficult to access. As new information on environment, resources, fisheries and their interaction are needed for management purposes and research, particular attention should be devoted to process oriented studies. Given constraints on human and financial resources, the challenge is to achieve an appropriate balance between monitoring and process-oriented studies. SE - Large Marine Ecosystems SN - 15700461 EP - 139 TI - Environmental and resource variability off Northwest Africa and in the gulf of guinea: A review VL - 11 T2 - The Gulf of Guinea Large Marine Ecosystem - Environmental Forcing & Sustainable Development of Marine Resources SP - 121 KW - environment KW - fish KW - fisheries KW - lme KW - upwellings AU - Roy, C AU - Cury, P AU - Freon, P AU - Demarcq, H PY - 2002/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1570-0461(02)80032-5 ER -