Regional variation in the role of bottom-up and top-down processes in controlling sandeel abundance in the North Sea

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 337, Issue , 2007, Pages 279-286

  Frederiksen, Morten ^a   Furness, Robert W ^b   Wanless, Sarah ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecosystem function; Herring; Marine food webs; Resource management; Sandeel; Trophic structure

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EEL; FOOD WEB; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SEABIRD; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH SEA; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

AMMODYTES MARINUS; CLUPEIDAE;

EID: 34548259327     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps337279     Document Type: Review

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