Structure and stability in exploited marine fish communities: Quantifying critical transitions

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 83-101

  Petrie, Brian ^a   Frank, Kenneth T ^a   Shackell, Nancy L ^a   Leggett, William C ^b  

^a BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Exploitation; Marine fish populations; Predator prey relationships; Thresholds; Trophic cascades; Trophic structure

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EXPLOITATION; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THRESHOLD; TIME SERIES; TROPHIC STRUCTURE; WARM WATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 63049090047     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2009.00500.x     Document Type: Article

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