We demonstrate how changes in the suite of fishing vessels performing the survey can affect the results of the data analysis using sablefish catches in the U.S. west coast groundfish bottom trawl survey from 1998 to 2000.
This was done because physiological condition can influence river entry time (Crossin et al. 2007; Cooke et al. 2008a) and migration rate (Crossin et al. 2007; Hanson et al. 2008) which would potentially expose fish to a different suite of fishing activities.
However, some striking exceptions have been well studied, such as the tide pool copepod Tigriopus californicus that has remarkably short scale population structure [20], and a suite of Caribbean marine fish for which larval duration explains little of the variation in mtDNA differentiation [21].
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker Suite" is danced by fantastical corps of fish, fairies, and flora, while another segment, set to Amilcare Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours," features a cast of animals, including hippos and elephants.
In recent decades, the populations of all three have declined as much as ninety-nine per cent, due to a suite of factors: coastal development, fishing, and hydropower dams, as well as disease and predation.
By statistical modeling of the associations between each of the suspected causal factors and the suite of biological effects seen in fish, we established the likely influence of antiandrogens versus estrogens, both alone and in combination, on each response variable.
A suite of multivariate analyses revealed that fishing activity was negatively associated with invertebrate species richness and diversity and the density of several taxa, especially large, fragile, or surface-dwelling species.
Given that fishing greatly alters a suite of correlated characters (Walsh et al. 2006), would the cessation of fishing allow the entire set of traits to be reconstituted just as they were before selection?
The reefs of Papua New Guinea face a suite of threats from local impacts (over-fishing, development, siltation), transnational (shifts in fisheries pressure, live reef fish trade) and global sources (increased sea surface temperatures, oceanic acidification) [ 8, 27, 28].
