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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2020

Limited evidence for sardine and anchovy asynchrony: re-examining an old story.

Margaret C Siple, Timothy E Essington, Lewis A K Barnett, Mark D Scheuerell

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Seasonal asynchrony and harvest diversification contribute to demersal finfish fisheries stability in Chesapeake Bay.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2025
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  3. Direct and ancillary benefits of ecosystem-based fisheries management in forage fish fisheries.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2021
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  4. Global hotspots of coherent marine fishery catches.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Margaret C SipleSchool of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA.
Timothy E EssingtonSchool of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA.
Lewis A K BarnettAlaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115, USA.
Mark D ScheuerellNorthwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2725 Montlake Blvd E, Seattle, WA 98112, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Asynchronous fluctuations in abundance between species with similar ecological roles can stabilize food webs and support coexistence. Sardine (

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FishesPopulation DynamicsAnimalsBiomassEcosystemFisheriesFood Chainasynchronycompensatory dynamicsfisheries ecologyfood webssmall pelagic fishestime series modelling

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PMID32156216
PMCPMC7126059

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