Overfishing causes frequent fish population collapses but rare extinctions
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Overfishing causes frequent fish population collapses but rare extinctions.
Burgess et al.’s report in PNAS, “Range contraction enables harvesting to extinction” (1), provides a highly valuable perspective on the consequences of species range contractions that maintain local densities of declining populations. The authors suggest that this densitydependent contraction maintains local harvesting yields and economic incentives that enable depleted natural populations of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1706893114