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Increasing pressures on the environment are generating an ever-increasing need to manage animal and plant populations sustainably, and to protect and rebuild endangered populations. Effective management requires reliable mathematical…
European sardine is experiencing an overfishing around the world. The dynamics of the industrial and artisanal fishing in the Mediterranean Sea from 1970 to 2014 by country was assessed by means of Bayesian joint longitudinal modelling that…
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