Title: Uso de modelos espacio-estado autorregresivos multivariantes para examinar la estructura poblacional del jurel en el Atlántico Norte
University that offers the project: University of Vigo
Director: Roca Pardiñas, Javier
Summary:
Horse mackerel is managed as three different stocks in the North Atlantic. The student will examine the population structure of the different stocks through time and space to determine whether they are part of the same larger population or not and how fishing or environmental changes affect their dynamics. Specifically he will ask (1) if the population abundance data support the existing management boundaries or if there are alternative grouping that receive more support, (2) if the subpopulation (if they exist) experience independent environmental variability or correlated variability. For that, he will mathematically formulate different hypothesis about the population structure via different multivariate autoregressive state-space models (MARSS).
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