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El camino hacia una graduación exitosa y una carrera en la investigación: consejos para los investigadores incipientes

Bryan M. Maitland Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, T6G 2H1 Steven J. Cooke Fish Ecology and Conservation Laboratory, Ottawa–Carleton Institute of Biology and Institute of Environmental Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1S 5B6 Mark Poesch Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, 751 General Service Building, Edmonton, AB, Canada,... Read More

Finding the Path to a Successful Graduate and Research Career: Advice for Early Career Researchers

Bryan M. Maitland Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, T6G 2H1 Steven J. Cooke Fish Ecology and Conservation Laboratory, Ottawa–Carleton Institute of Biology and Institute of Environmental Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1S 5B6 Mark Poesch Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, 751 General Service Building, Edmonton, AB, Canada,... Read More

Translating Climate Change Effects into Everyday Language: An Example of More Driving and Less Angling

Jefferson T. DeWeber Pennsylvania Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Pennsylvania State University, 413 Forest Resources Building, University Park, PA 16802. E-mail: [email protected] Tyler Wagner U.S. Geological Survey, Pennsylvania Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 Climate change is expected to result in widespread changes in species distributions (e.g.,... Read More

¿Estamos pescando lo que ellos comen? Más allá de las tendencias del nivel trófico medio de la captura

Konstantine J. Rountos School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, SUNY Stony Brook, Discovery Hall, Room 165, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5000, and Institute for Ocean Conservation Science, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5000. E-mail: [email protected] Michael G. Frisk School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook,... Read More

Are We Catching What They Eat? Moving Beyond Trends in the Mean Trophic Level of Catch

Konstantine J. Rountos School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, SUNY Stony Brook, Discovery Hall, Room 165, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5000, and Institute for Ocean Conservation Science, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5000. E-mail: [email protected] Michael G. Frisk School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook,... Read More

Caracterización de las dimensiones humanas de una pesquería escondida: pescadores fluviales de palangre artesanal

Benjamin D. Dickinson Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0321 Donald J. Orth Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0321. E-mail: [email protected] Steve L. McMullin Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0321 Las pesquerías escondidas incluyen a los pescadores de... Read More

Characterizing the Human Dimensions of a Hidden Fishery: Riverine Trotline Fishers

Benjamin D. Dickinson Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0321 Donald J. Orth Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0321. E-mail: [email protected] Steve L. McMullin Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0321 Hidden fisheries include catfish harvesters who use trotlines... Read More

Fishing Down through the Food Web

Villy Christensen Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries University of British Columbia 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver BC, Canada V6T 1Z4. E-mail: [email protected] Villy Christensen is a professor at UBC, and he leads the development of the Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) modeling approach and software, which is coordinated through an international consortium with 25 institutional members.... Read More