Effects of fishing and predation in a heavily exploited ecosystem: Comparing periods before and after the collapse of groundfish in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence (Canada)

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 204, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 115-128

  Savenkoff, C ^a   Swain, D P ^b   Hanson, J M ^b   Castonguay, M ^a   Hammill, M O ^a   Bourdages, H ^a   Morissette, L ^a,c   Chabot, D ^a  

^a MAURICE LAMONTAGNE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b GULF FISHERIES CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cod collapse; Food webs; Inverse methods; Mass balance models; Trophic fluxes

Indexed keywords

FISH; FISHERIES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN HABITATS;

COD COLLAPSE; FOOD WEBS; INVERSE METHODS; MASS BALANCE MODELS; TROPHIC FLUXES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; FISHING; FOOD WEB; GADOID; MARINE MAMMAL; MASS BALANCE; PREDATION; STOCK ASSESSMENT; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF SAINT LAWRENCE;

CETACEA; CLUPEIDAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; MALLOTUS (FISH); MAMMALIA; PISCES;

EID: 34247139675     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2006.12.029     Document Type: Article

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