Overfishing and regime shifts in minimal food web models

Community Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 236-243

  Moreh A ^a   Jordan F ^b,c   Szilagyi A ^a   Scheuring, I ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Food web; Overfishing; Regime shift; Small pelagics; Species replacement

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; FOOD WEB; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; OVERFISHING; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; PRIMARY PRODUCTION;

EID: 73649090387     PISSN: 15858553     EISSN: 15882756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ComEc.10.2009.2.14     Document Type: Article

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