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Community management of coastal resources, southern Thailand
Type: Journal Article
The involvement of communities with the assistance and support of government and non government organizations on the management of the coastal resources in Southern Thailand are discussed. The 3 most important resources, ...
ICLARM software projects: back to the future
Type: Journal Article
The different computer softwares developed by the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources (ICLARM) and its functions and uses in fisheries science are presented.
A trophic ecosystem model of Lake George, Uganda
Type: Book Chapter
A trophic model of Lake George, Uganda, Central Africa was constructed using published quantitative and qualitative information on the various biotic components of the lake and the ECOPATH II approach and software. It is ...
Flow characteristics of aquatic ecosystems
Type: Book Chapter
This contribution examines various flow measures based on analysis of 41 quantified models of trophic interactions in aquatic ecosystems.
MAPPER, a low-level geographic information system
Type: Journal Article
A Low-Level Geographic Information System (LL-GIS) was developed to provide a simple low-cost mapping program which can be executed in any personal computer, by individuals with different levels of knowledge in computing. ...
Farmer participatory procedures for managing and monitoring sustainable farming systems
Type: Journal Article
This paper aims to devise a farmer participatory method that not only improves farmer management of natural resources, but also monitors the impact of improvements. This assessment is made in terms of: economic efficiency, ...
On comparing groups of fishes based on length-weight relationships
Type: Journal Article
F. Torres, Jr., in a 1991 Fishbyte article, presented length-weight relationships derived from 122 graphs in van der Elst's 1981 "A guide to the common sea fishes of southern Africa". This author analyzes Torres's tabulated ...
Edible seaweeds: an important source of food and income to indigenous Fijians
Type: Journal Article
The increasing harvest of 7 edible seaweeds in Fiji and their importance to the economy of indigenous Fijians are discussed. Traditional methods in the collection, preparation and consumption of seaweeds by the Fijians are ...
Trophic models of aquatic ecosystems
Type: Conference Proceedings
A large proportion of the contributions to the ICES Theme Session on "Trophic models in aquatic ecosystems" is presented, together with papers of a number of scientists and very experienced ecosystem modellers.
An ECOPATH II model of the Lake Chad system
Type: Book Chapter
The trophic ecosystem modelling software, ECOPATH II, was used to analyze the Lake Chad system, Africa, during its "normal" phase, the period between 1969 and 1972. Reasonable estimates of population-related parameters for ...