Shift in seagrass food web structure over decades is linked to overfishing

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 451, Issue , 2012, Pages 61-73

  Baden, Susanne ^a   Emanuelsson, Andreas ^a,b   Pihl, Leif ^a   Svensson, Carl Johan ^a   Åberg, Per ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b SIK THE SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR FOOD AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Eutrophication; Food web structure; Overfishing; Seagrass

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; CATCH COMPOSITION; COASTAL ZONE; CRUSTACEAN; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EUTROPHICATION; FIELD METHOD; FILAMENTOUS ALGA; FOOD WEB; FORAGE; GADOID; GRAZING; GROWTH RESPONSE; OMNIVORY; OVERFISHING; PERCIFORM; POPULATION DECLINE; SALMONID; SEAGRASS; TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

SWEDEN;

ALGAE; CRUSTACEA; GADIFORMES; GAMMARIDAE; IDOTEIDAE; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 84859735643     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09585     Document Type: Article

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