Comment on "Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services"

Wilberg, Michael J.; Miller, Thomas J.

Comment on "Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services"

2007

Wilberg, Michael J. | Miller, Thomas J.

Worm et al. (Research Articles, 3 November 2006, p. 787) reported an increasing proportion of fisheries in a "collapsed" state. We show that this may be an artifact of their definition of collapse as a fixed percentage of the maximum and that an increase in the number of managed fisheries could produce similar patterns as an increase in fisheries with catches below 10% of the maximum.

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