Damped trophic cascades driven by fishing in model marine ecosystems

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1682, 2010, Pages 795-802

  Andersen, K H ^a   Pedersen, M ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Community model; Ecosystem approach to fisheries management; Size spectrum

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHING; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MODEL TEST; PERTURBATION; PREDATOR; PREDATOR CONTROL; TROPHIC CASCADE; TROPHIC LEVEL;

EID: 77649206242     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1512     Document Type: Article

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