The trophic fingerprint of marine fisheries

Nature

Volumn 468, Issue 7322, 2010, Pages 431-435

  Branch, Trevor A ^a   Watson, Reg ^b   Fulton, Elizabeth A ^c   Jennings, Simon ^d,e   McGilliard, Carey R ^a   Pablico, Grace T ^b   Ricard, Daniel ^f   Tracey, Sean R ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^f DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOINDICATOR; CATCH COMPOSITION; FISHING; FOOD WEB; INVERTEBRATE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PLANKTON; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; PREDATOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STOCK ASSESSMENT; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; FISHING; FOOD WEB; PREDATOR; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TROPHIC CASCADE;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FISHERIES; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INVERTEBRATES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANKTON;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 78549265498     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09528     Document Type: Article

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