Ecology: Trophic cascades in a formerly cod-dominated ecosystem

Science

Volumn 308, Issue 5728, 2005, Pages 1621-1623

  Frank, Kenneth T ^a   Petrie, Brian ^a   Choi, Jae S ^a,b   Leggett, William C ^b  

^a BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATA ACQUISITION; FOOD SUPPLY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MARINE ENGINEERING;

FOOD WEB; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PREDATORS; TROPHIC CASCADES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

MARINE ECOSYSTEM; TROPHIC CASCADE;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FISH; FOOD WEB; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHIC CASCADE; TROPHIC LEVEL; ANIMAL; ATLANTIC COD; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD INDUSTRY; INVERTEBRATE; PHOCA; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TIME; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

SEA WATER;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; FISHERIES; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; GADUS MORHUA; INVERTEBRATES; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEALS, EARLESS; SEAWATER; TIME FACTORS; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 20644435140     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1113075     Document Type: Article

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