Overfishing drives atrophic cascade in the Black sea

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 225, Issue , 2002, Pages 53-63

  Daskalov, Georgi M ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Black Sea; Blooms; Eutrophication; Food web control; Overfishing; Predation; Trophic cascade

Indexed keywords

EUTROPHICATION; FOOD WEB; OVERFISHING; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANKTIVORE; PREDATOR; ZOOPLANKTON;

BLACK SEA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHAETOGNATHA; COELENTERATA; CORYPHAENIDAE; CTENOPHORA (COELENTERATES); HYDROIDA; KATSUWONUS PELAMIS; MAMMALIA; PISCES; PROTOZOA; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 0037059621     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps225053     Document Type: Article

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