Fisheries Oceanography
The International Journal of the Japanese Society for Fisheries Oceanography
Edited by:
David Checkley
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 3/40 Fisheries; 6/50 Oceanography
Impact Factor: 2.812
The international journal of the Japanese Society for Fisheries Oceanography, Fisheries Oceanography is designed to present a forum for the exchange of information amongst fisheries scientists worldwide.
Fisheries Oceanography...
- presents original research articles relating the production and dynamics of fish populations to the marine environment
- examines entire food chains - not just single species
- identifies mechanisms controlling abundance
- explores factors affecting the recruitment and abundance of fish species and all higher marine tropic levels
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Free Online Access in the Developing World
Access to this journal is available free online within institutions in the developing world through the AGORA Initiative with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the OARE Initiative (Online Access to Research in the Environment) with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Articles Published Online Ahead of Print
Articles which have been fully copy-edited and peer-reviewed are published online through our Early View feature before the print edition of this journal is published.
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TopHighlights
Click on the titles below to read the most downloaded articles in Fisheries Oceanography in 2009:
Groundfish species associations with distinct oceanographic habitats in the Northern California Current
Maria José Juan-Jordá, John A. Barth, M. E. Clarke, W. W. Wakefield
Inclusion of prey data improves prediction of bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) distribution
R. S. Schick, M. E. Lutcavage
Structure and stability in exploited marine fish communities: quantifying critical transitions
Brian Petrie, Kenneth T. Frank, Nancy L. Shackell, William C. Leggett
The influence of diel vertical migration on zooplankton transport and recruitment in an upwelling region: estimates from a coupled behavioral-physical model
Sarah D. Carr, Xavier J. Capet, James C. McWilliams, J. Timothy Pennington, Francisco P. Chavez
A Bayesian model for anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus): the combined forcing of man and environment
Javier Ruiz, Rafael González-Quirós, Laura Prieto, Gabriel Navarro
Linking spatial pattern of bottom fish assemblages with water masses in the North Sea
Siegfried Ehrich, Vanessa Stelzenmüller, Sara Adlerstein
