Key features and context-dependence of fishery-induced trophic cascades;Atributos clave y dependencia del contexto de cascadas tróficas inducidas por pesquerías

Conservation Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 382-394

  Salomon, Anne K ^a,b   Gaichas, Sarah K ^c   Shears, Nick T ^a   Smith, Jennifer E ^d   Madin, Elizabeth M P ^a   Gaines, Steven D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative states; Fishing; Food web; Harvest; Indirect effects; Predation; Trophic cascade

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FISHING; FOOD WEB; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HARVESTING; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PHYSICAL DISTURBANCE; PREDATION; PREDATOR; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPHIC CASCADE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISH; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD INDUSTRY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FISHERIES; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77954151737     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01436.x     Document Type: Article

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