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Crouse, Deborah T., Larry B. Crowder, and Hal Caswell (1987). A Stage-Based
Population Model for Loggerhead Sea Turtles and Implications for
Conservation. Ecology, 68(5):1412-1423.
Management of many species is currently based on an inadequate
understanding of their population dynamics. Lack of age specific demographic
information particularly for long lived iteroparous species, has impeded
development of useful models. We use a Lefkovitch stage class matrix model,
based on a preliminary life table developed by Frazer (1983), to point to
interim management measures and to identify those data most critical to
refining our knowledge about the population dynamics of threatened loggerhead
sea turtles (Caretta caretta). Population projections are used to examine the
sensitivity of Frazer s life table to variations in parameter estimates as
well as the likely response of the population to various management
alternatives. Current management practices appear to be focused on the least
responsive life stage, eggs on nesting beaches. Alternative protection
efforts for juvenile loggerheads, such as using turtle excluder devices (TEDs)
may be far more effective.
Crowley, Thomas J. (1996). "Remembrance of Things Past: Greenhouse
Lessons from the Geological Record." Consequences, 2(1):3-12.
Were the earth to warm by the 2 o C given in the middle range of the
consensus projections of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the
mean surface temperature would climb to higher values than any known in the
last two million years. Were the amount of carbon dioxide in the air to
double, the surface temperatures would rise even higher. We have now consumed
about 5 percent of the total reservoir of fossil fuels, predominantly coal,
that is still in the ground. Were we to burn all or most of what remains, the
carbon dioxide released to the air could drive global surface temperatures to
levels last known about 100 million years ago, at the time of the dinosaurs.
While questions remain regarding possible, ameliorating feedbacks from other
elements of the climate system, all that is known from the record of the past
confirms a direct connection between greenhouse gases and surface temperature.
Crutchfield, James A. (1956). "Common Property Resources and Factor
Allocation." Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science,
22(3):292-300.
Two recent articles by Gordon and Scott present an interesting analysis
of the conditions for economic maximization in a renewable resource industry
the primary raw material for which is drawn from the public domain. While
their criticism of the concepts that now govern fishery conservation programs
will be generally accepted among the handful of economists dealing with the
fishing industry, some aspects of the problem call for additional
consideration. In this paper I should like to elaborate and modify the
general outlines of the analysis, largely in terms of a specific and important
case: the Pacific halibut fishery.
Crutchfield, James A. (1961). "An Economic Evaluation of Alternative
Methods of Fishery Regulation." Journal of Law and Economics,
4:131-43.
The time is ripe to take a careful look at our techniques of fishery
management from the standpoint of their economic effects. Accepting without
further inquiry the fact that rational utilization of the major Pacific Coast
fish populations requires limitation of fishing mortality, let us turn to two
equally significant questions: how can this limitation of catch be made
effective, and which of the alternative methods will minimize the long run
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