User profiles for T. Pitcher

Tony J Pitcher

- Verified email at oceans.ubc.ca - Cited by 35428

Trevor E. Pitcher

- Verified email at uwindsor.ca - Cited by 4656

Toni L Pitcher

- Verified email at otago.ac.nz - Cited by 4046

Towards sustainability in world fisheries

D Pauly, V Christensen, S Guénette, TJ Pitcher… - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
Fisheries have rarely been 'sustainable'. Rather, fishing has induced serial depletions, long
masked by improved technology, geographic expansion and exploitation of previously …

Genetic quality and sexual selection: an integrated framework for good genes and compatible genes

BD Neff, TE Pitcher - Molecular ecology, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
… The authors asked females to rank the pleasantness of the odor of t-shirts that were worn
for two days by various males. Specifically, each female was asked to rank six t-shirts, three of …

Fishing down the deep

T Morato, R Watson, TJ Pitcher, D Pauly - Fish and fisheries, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Global landings of demersal marine fishes are demonstrated to have shifted to deeper water
species over the last 50 years. Our analysis suggests deep‐water fish stocks may be at …

Fisheries managed to rebuild ecosystems? Reconstructing the past to salvage the future

TJ Pitcher - Ecological applications, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents the case for adopting ecosystem rebuilding as the goal of fisheries
management. Movement toward this goal may represent the only hope for fisheries, as we know …

Functions of shoaling behaviour in teleosts

TJ Pitcher - The behaviour of teleost fishes, 1993 - Springer
Predators and food are the keys to understanding fish shoals; synchronised co-operation
defeats predators, and optimal food gathering in shoals reflects a shifting balance between …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating the worldwide extent of illegal fishing

…, T Peatman, R Watson, JR Beddington, TJ Pitcher - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Illegal and unreported fishing contributes to overexploitation of fish stocks and is a hindrance
to the recovery of fish populations and ecosystems. This study is the first to undertake a …

Age-groups from size-frequency data: a versatile and efficient method of analyzing distribution mixtures

PDM Macdonald, TJ Pitcher - Journal of the Fisheries Board of …, 1979 - cdnsciencepub.com
For estimating age-group parameters from size-frequency data, conventional efficient statistical
methods, such as maximum likelihood, can be more effective than the commonly used …

Fish in larger shoals find food faster

TJ Pitcher, AE Magurran, IJ Winfield - Behavioral Ecology and …, 1982 - Springer
… A shoal is defined here as a social group of fish (Pitcher 1979b). … in other species of
cyprinids (Pitcher 1979b). To control for hunger, all fish were fed equally about 6 h prior to a trial. …

Fine and gross motor ability in males with ADHD

TM Pitcher, JP Piek, DA Hay - Developmental medicine and child …, 2003 - cambridge.org
… -HI group did not significantly differ from that of the comparison group (t[25.09]=–1.2, p>0.025),
it was significantly better than that of the ADHD-PI group (t[51.02]=–2.55, p<0.025). The …

The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

…, LM Olde Loohuis, DP Orfanos, JF Pearson, TL Pitcher… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The cerebral cortex underlies our complex cognitive capabilities.
Variations in human cortical surface area and thickness are associated with neurological, …