Marine Animal Populations: A New Look Back In Time

Poul Holm, Anne Husum Marboe, Bo Poulsen, Brian MacKenzie

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLife in the World's Oceans : Diversity, Distribution and Abundance.
EditorsAlasdair McIntyre
Number of pages21
Place of PublicationOxford
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
Publication dateOct 2010
Pages3-23
Chapter1
ISBN (Print)978-1-4051-9297-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2010
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Analytical framework of HMAP - embracing two basic premises
  • Human impacts on coastal environments - across globe, and in quite different ecosystems
  • Marine animal populations
  • Marine-capture fisheries, stagnating around 90 million tonnes per year
  • Mediterranean and Black Seas, among the earliest heavily fished marine ecosystems in the world
  • Megamollusks, shellfish, heavily collected - for meat and ornaments through history
  • North Sea, another heavily fished and depleted marine system
  • Oceans past - marine animal populations - a new look back in time
  • Pre-Hispanic mega-middens of queen conch (Strombus gigas) on La Pelona Island, Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela
  • World whaling - one of the most profitable extractive industries ever undertaken

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    • Årets Danske Forskningsresultat 2009

      Poulsen, Bo (Recipient), Holm, Poul (Recipient), MacKenzie, Brian R. (Recipient), Marboe, Anne (Recipient), Eero, Margit (Recipient), Taudal Poulsen, René (Recipient) & Bager, Maibritt (Recipient), 1 Dec 2009

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