Food Web Structure and Trophic Control in Central Puget Sound

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 821-838

  Harvey, Chris J ^a   Williams, Gregory D ^a   Levin, Phillip S ^a  

^a NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecopath with Ecosim; Ecosystem modeling; Ecosystem based management; Food webs; Puget Sound; Trophic structure

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FISHING; FOOD WEB; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; KEYSTONE SPECIES; PHYTOPLANKTON; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RAPTOR; TIME SERIES; TROPHIC CASCADE; TROPHIC CONTROL;

PUGET SOUND; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

HALIAEETUS LEUCOCEPHALUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84859426649     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-012-9483-1     Document Type: Article

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