Relating species and community dynamics in an heavily exploited marine fish community

Ecosystems

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 899-910

  Duplisea, Daniel E ^a   Blanchard, Fabian ^b  

^a MAURICE LAMONTAGNE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Diversity stability; Emergent property; Energy flow; Goal function; Species replacement; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EXPLOITATION; FISHERY; GUILD STRUCTURE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GEORGES BANK;

EID: 28844499142     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-005-0011-z     Document Type: Article

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