Browsing Miscellaneous themes by Author "Pauly, D."
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Diet composition and trophic levels of marine mammals
(1998)Type: Journal ArticleStandardized diet compositions were derived for 97 species of marine mammals from published accounts of stomach contents as well as from morphological, behavioural and other information. Diet was apportioned among eight ... -
Electronic length frequency analysis: a revised and expanded user's guide to ELEFAN 0, 1 and 2
(1986)Type: ManualThis guide presents an updated and extended version of the ELEFAN 0, ELEFAN 1 and ELEFAN 2 programs for Electronic LEngth Frequency ANalysis. These programs can be used to estimate the parameters of a (seasonally oscillating) ... -
Fish population dynamics in tropical waters: a manual for use with programmable calculators
(1984)Type: Working PaperThis manual is a selection, from the entire field of fish population dynamics, of methods that are applicable totropical fish and fisheries and can be implemented with the help of programmable calculators. The methods ... -
Fisheries Resource Information System and Tools (FIRST) : user manual
(2001)Type: ManualThe User Manual of the Fisheries Resource Information System and Tools (FiRST) version 2000 documents the database system that was developed under ADB-RETA 5766. As envisioned, the database system contains extant trawl ... -
Fishery statistics on the microcomputer: a BASIC version of Hasselblad's NORMSTEP program
(1986)Type: Journal ArticleThis paper provides an outline of a mathematical method to analyse overlapping normal distributions. Separations of mixtures of normal distributions is frequently required in fisheries biological analysis, as in the case ... -
Flow characteristics of aquatic ecosystems
(1993)Type: Book ChapterThis contribution examines various flow measures based on analysis of 41 quantified models of trophic interactions in aquatic ecosystems. -
Growth of the checkered puffer Sphoeroides testudineus: postscript to papers by Target and Pauly Ingles
(1991)Type: Journal ArticleJ. Ingles and D. Pauly presented at the Fourth International Coral Reef Symposium a seasonally oscillating growth curve for the puffer Sphoeroides testudineus (Tetraodontidae), based on length-frequency data collected in ... -
Guide du logiciel ECOPATH II (version 2.1)
(1992)Type: ManualThis guide documents the use and background of the ECOPATH II software system written for MS DOS computers for straightforward construction and parametrization of steady-state trophic models of aquatic ecosystems. ECOPATH ... -
ICLARM's Resource Development and Management Program: the Tropical Stock Assessment Research Project
(1980)Type: Journal ArticleThe project was conceived to identify and overcome the major constraints preventing the development of stock assessment techniques appropriate to tropical stocks. These constraints are listed and the project's programme of ... -
Management of multispecies stocks: a review of the theory
(1978)Type: Journal ArticleThe multitude of species contributing to the catch of the demersal fisheries of Southeast Asia, combined with an acute lack of knowledge on the biology of these species and the scarcity of good statistical data on the ... -
Measuring ecological stress: variations on a theme by R.M. Warwick
(1990)Type: Journal ArticleTwo new indices are presented which reflect quantitatively the changes to be expected in an ecological community under stress, as previously described by R. M. Warwick. The indices summarize information which he presented ... -
Ocean sciences in relation to living resources
(1982)Type: Journal ArticleA major new international research program of importance to fisheries is likely to be adopted later this year. Ocean Sciences in Relation to Living Resources, sponsored by FAO and IOC, a proposal concerning the relationship ... -
On holism, reductionism and working from 9 to 5
(1990)Type: Journal ArticleA discussion is presented on the 2 approaches - holism and reductionism - in the study of environmental sciences, making reference to various projects presently being conducted by ICLARM and its collaborators using the ... -
On improving operation and use of the elefan programs. part 1, avoiding "drift" of K towards low values
(1985)Type: Journal ArticleThe article proposes improvements for the ELEFAN programs describing how they may be used for optimum output, considering the von Bertalanffy growth equation and the K parameter. -
On improving operation and use of the elefan programs. part 2, improving the estimation of L
(1986)Type: Journal ArticleFour simple approaches which rely on slightly modified versions of ELEPHAN I and/or II are given for the estimation of length of fish. -
On microcomputers vs. thinking and their respective roles in fisheries research in developing countries
(1987)Type: Journal ArticleA discussion is presented on the topic of microcomputers and fishery research in developing countries, consideringin particular the advantages of the use of computers for data storage and examination as compared to ... -
On reason, mythologies and natural resource conservation
(1987)Type: Journal ArticleScientific advice is neither generated nor received in a culturally neutral context. There are two ways by which a cultural context can emerge in which conservationists measures are considered reasonable. -
On using other people's data
(1988)Type: Journal ArticleA discussion is presented as to when and how to use another person's data in the field of fishery sciences. Procedures to be taken for the use of published and technically unpublished material are outlined. -
Population dynamics of shortlived species with emphasis on squids
(1985)Type: Book ChapterThe features of short-lived fishes and invertebrates relevant to their population dynamics and exploitation are reviewed, with emphasis on methodological approaches, which could lead to improved management of squid stocks. ... -
Quantitative analysis of published data on the growth, metabolism, food consumption, and related features of the red-bellied piranha, Serrasalmus nattereri (Characidae)
(1994)Type: Journal ArticleA tentative set of growth parameters of the von Bertalanffy growth equation were estimated for the red-bellied piranha, Serrasalmus nattereri, a common characid of the Amazonas and adjacent floodplains, based on length-frequency ...
