Changes in the northern Gulf of St. Lawrence ecosystem estimated by inverse modelling: Evidence of a fishery-induced regime shift?

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 73, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 711-724

  Savenkoff, Claude ^a   Castonguay, Martin ^a   Chabot, Denis ^a   Hammill, Mike O ^a   Bourdages, Hugo ^a   Morissette, Lyne ^a,b  

^a MAURICE LAMONTAGNE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

cod collapse; food webs; Gulf of St. Lawrence (Canada); inverse methods; mass balance models; regime shift

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEMERSAL FISH; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FISHING; FOOD WEB; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GADOID; INVERSE ANALYSIS; MARINE MAMMAL; MASS BALANCE; PREDATION; TROPHIC INTERACTION; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF SAINT LAWRENCE;

CLUPEIDAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); MALLOTUS (FISH); MAMMALIA; PISCES; REINHARDTIUS HIPPOGLOSSOIDES;

EID: 34248994256     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2007.03.011     Document Type: Article

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