Multi-level trophic cascades in a heavily exploited open marine ecosystem

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1644, 2008, Pages 1793-1801

  Casini, Michele ^a   Lövgren, Johan ^a   Hjelm, Joakim ^a   Cardinale, Massimiliano ^a   Molinero, Juan Carlos ^b   Kornilovs, Georgs ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^c Latvian Fish Resources Agency   (Latvia)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Bottom up versus top down control; Climate; Eutrophication; Food web; Pelagic marine ecosystem

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLUPEOID; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EUTROPHICATION; FOOD WEB; GADOID; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PLANKTON; POPULATION DECLINE; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC CASCADE; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC COD; BALTIC SEA; BIOMASS; CLIMATE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DENSITY; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUMMER; TROPHIC CASCADE; ZOOPLANKTON;

ALGAE; GADUS MORHUA; SPRATTUS SPRATTUS;

EID: 45249100644     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1752     Document Type: Article

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