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Virtual population analysis — (VPA) is a modeling technique commonly used in fisheries science for reconstructing historical fish numbers at age using information on death of individuals each year. This death is usually partitioned into catch by fisheries and natural… … Wikipedia
virtual population analysis — A mathematical modelling technique used in stock assessment, whereby the number of fish in each cohort is estimated from numbers in the next oldest or next youngest age group, adjusted for the changes due to fishing and natural mortality; see… … Fisheries — dictionary
Population dynamics of fisheries — A fishery is an area with an associated fish or aquatic population which is harvested for its commercial or recreational value. Fisheries can be wild or farmed. Population dynamics describes the ways in which a given population grows and shrinks… … Wikipedia
cohort analysis — virtual population analysis (an algorithm for computing historical fishing mortality rates and stock sizes by age or length, based on data on catches, natural mortality, and certain assumptions about mortality for the last year and last age group … Dictionary of ichthyology
Population transfer — is the movement of a large group of people from one region to another by state policy or international authority, most frequently on the basis of ethnicity or religion. Banishment or exile is a similar process, but is forcibly applied to… … Wikipedia
Population dynamics — is the branch of life sciences that studies short term and long term changes in the size and age composition of populations, and the biological and environmental processes influencing those changes. Population dynamics deals with the way… … Wikipedia
Virtual Tribunal of the Special Court for Sierra Leone — About the Virtual Tribunal of the Special Court for Sierra Leone [http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/ changmin/] = Professor David Cohen, Director of the Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center (WCSC), and Professor Ruzena Bajcsy of the Department of… … Wikipedia
Contents of the United States diplomatic cables leak (analysis of individual leaders) — Contents 1 Afghanistan 2 Albania 3 Argentina 4 Armenia … Wikipedia
VPA — virtual population analysis … Dictionary of ichthyology
Fisheries glossary — This is a glossary of terms used in fisheries, fisheries management and fisheries science. A * Abundance is a measure of how many fish are in a population or a fishing ground. See relative abundance and absolute abundance.* Acoustic survey a… … Wikipedia
