Historical Changes in Marine Resources, Food-web Structure and Ecosystem Functioning in the Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean

Ecosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 198-222

  Lotze, Heike K ^a   Coll, Marta ^a,b   Dunne, Jennifer A ^c,d  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab   (United States)

Author keywords

ecological history; ecosystem modelling; eutrophication; exploitation; extinction; food web structure; habitat loss; invasion; marine populations

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; EUTROPHICATION; EXTINCTION RISK; FOOD WEB; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MARINE RESOURCE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PALEONTOLOGY; ROMAN ERA; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WATER QUALITY;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 79952451706     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-010-9404-8     Document Type: Article

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