Food-web dynamics in the South Catalan Sea ecosystem (NW Mediterranean) for 1978-2003

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 217, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 95-116

  Coll, Marta ^a,b   Palomera, Isabel ^a   Tudela, Sergi ^c   Dowd, Michael ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c WWF Mediterranean Programme Office   (Spain)

Author keywords

Catalan Sea; Ecopath with Ecosim; Ecosystem indicators; Environmental factors; Fishing impacts; Food web modelling; NW Mediterranean; Trend analysis

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; CANNING; COMPETITION; CURVE FITTING; ECOSYSTEMS; FISH; FISHERIES; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FOOD PRESERVATION; FOOD PROCESSING; FORECASTING; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; MARINE BIOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SULFATE MINERALS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

A POSTERIORI; ANECDOTAL INFORMATION; BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DRIVING FACTORS; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; FISHING ACTIVITIES; FOOD WEB DYNAMICS; FUNCTIONAL CHANGES; GENERAL (CO); GENERALIZED LEAST SQUARES (GLS) REGRESSION; HORSE MACKEREL; MARINE RESOURCES; NW MEDITERRANEAN; PREDICTED VALUES; PROCESS-ORIENTED; SMALL PELAGIC FISH; TIME SERIES DATA; TROPHIC CASCADES; TROPHIC INTERACTIONS; TROPHIC LEVELS;

ECOLOGY;

BIOMASS; CALIBRATION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FISHING; FOOD WEB; MORTALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

CATALAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

CEPHALOPODA; CHONDRICHTHYES; ENGRAULIDAE; EQUIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; LOPHIIFORMES; MULLIDAE; PLEURONECTIFORMES; REXEA SOLANDRI;

EID: 48149111657     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.06.013     Document Type: Article

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