Food-web changes in the Adriatic Sea over the last three decades

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 381, Issue , 2009, Pages 17-37

  Coll, Marta ^a,b   Santojanni, Alberto ^c   Palomera, Isabel ^a   Arneri, Enrico ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adriatic Sea; Ecopath with Ecosim; Ecosystem indicators; Environmental factors; Fishing impacts; Food web modelling; Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOMASS; CATCH STATISTICS; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; FISHING; FOOD WEB; MARINE RESOURCE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MORTALITY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TELEOST; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ENGRAULIDAE; MULLIDAE; NEPHROPS NORVEGICUS; PLEURONECTIFORMES; REXEA SOLANDRI;

EID: 65749116828     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07944     Document Type: Article

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