Fishing down, fishing through and fishing up: Fundamental process versus technical details

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 441, Issue , 2011, Pages 295-301

  Stergiou, Konstantinos I ^a   Tsikliras, Athanassios C ^a,b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fisheries management; Fishing down; Fishing through; Fishing up; Food webs

Indexed keywords

FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHING; FOOD WEB; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PREDATOR; TROPHIC LEVEL;

EID: 81255200245     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09377     Document Type: Article

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