Two centuries of multiple human impacts and successive changes in a north Atlantic food web

Ecological Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1428-1447

  Lotze, Heike K ^a   Milewski, Inka ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Conserv Council of New Brunswick ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Coastal ecosystem; Conservation; Cumulative effects; Eutrophication; Extinction; Food web structure; Habitat destruction; Historical ecology; Overfishing; Pollution; Recovery; Shifting baseline

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; EUTROPHICATION; EXTINCTION; FOOD WEB; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; OVERFISHING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF FUNDY;

ALGAE; AVES; BACILLARIOPHYTA; DINOPHYCEAE; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3142769479     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-5027     Document Type: Article

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