Leading indicators of trophic cascades

Ecology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 128-138

  Carpenter, S R ^a   Brock, W A ^a   Cole, J J ^b   Kitchell, J F ^a   Pace, M L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternate stable state; Depensation; Lake; Leading indicator; Return rate; Spectrum; Stochastic differential equations; Threshold; Trophic cascade; Variance

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FISH; FOOD WEB; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; SPECTRUM; STOCHASTICITY; THRESHOLD; TROPHIC CASCADE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; FISH; FOOD CHAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

PISCES;

EID: 37849026026     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01131.x     Document Type: Article

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