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Catch per unit effort | Harvest success, usually per unit of time | Berkes (1999) Lyver et al. (1999) Kitson (2004) |
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Body condition index | Pre- or postharvest observation of fat in body parts | Kofinas et al. (2002) Lyver (2002) |
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Breeding success | Number of young per adult or nest | Berkes (1982) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Population density sensing | Qualitative assessment using "feel, see, touch, smell, hear, and taste" | Heaslip (2002) H. Moller and S. Sunseri (unpublished manuscript) |
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Communal hunts | Collective information gathering | Gadgil et al. (1993) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Noting of unusual patterns | Detecting environmental change by noting extremes (strange distribution, breeding failure, etc.) | Krupnik and Jolly (2002) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Observations of species mix | Presence or absence of desirable or undesirable species or assemblages | J. Williams and T. Chrisp (unpublished manuscript) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||